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2026W34 Weekly report => 17/08 2K26 - 23/08 2K26 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla and Remcos.
      
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Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM, concerning Italian malspam campaigns.

Below are the details of the campaigns spread during the week from 17 August 2026 to 23 August 2026.

During the week under review, both global campaigns and campaigns in Italian increased compared with the previous week

This week was characterised by Password Stealers from the following families: FormBooK and Remcos.

The blue bar shows the total number of campaigns monitored in Italy in each week, while the red bar concerns campaigns in Italian (and targeting Italy).

We monitored 41
campaigns during the week, 9 of which used Italian as their language.



In order to understand how the various weeks are divided, below is a small table showing the breakdown of the considered period:

Week from to
Week_31 27/07 02/08
Week_32 03/08 09/08
Week_33 10/08 16/08
Week_34 17/08 23/08


During the week, the peak number of global campaigns was recorded on Monday 17 August, with 15 different campaigns. The peak number of campaigns in Italian was recorded on Tuesday 18 August, with 4 different campaigns, as shown in the chart below:




In the following chart we see the malware families spread globally for each day of the week:




Instead in this graph we see the distribution based on malware family. In the past week 10 different families were detected:


The top-ranking samples this week are Script files accounting for 73,17%.
MSIL files follow in second place with 17,07%.
As for third place, WIN32 files and Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) are tied for the spot, with 4,88%.
In the chart below we can see the various types of language used to develop malware:


In the following graph we see the distribution of the various types of languages divided by day:

 

In this graph we can see the malware families spread during the week with target Italy (in Italian) and composed of 2 families:

The campaigns in Italian analyzed by the TG Soft C.R.A.M. were grouped according to macro categories, obtained from the subject of the email message used for malware distribution (malspam). Below we see the subjects used in the various campaigns divided by day and type of malware.

17/08/2026
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed around "Payments".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed around "Documents".

18/08/2026
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed around "Reservations".
Remcos - spread through three campaigns themed around "Orders", "Requests" e "Miscellaneous".

19/08/2026
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed around "Reservations".
Remcos - spread through three campaigns themed around "Orders".

20/08/2026
Remcos 
- spread through three campaigns themed around "Payments".

Check out the July campaigns

We invite you to check out the July 2026 reports, to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:

10/08/2026 => Weekly report on MalSpam campaigns in Italy from 10 August 2026 to 16 August 2026
03/08/2026 => Weekly report on MalSpam campaigns in Italy from 03 August 2026 to 09 August 2026
27/07/2026 => Weekly report on MalSpam campaigns in Italy from 27 July 2026 to 02 August 2026
20/07/2026 => Weekly report on MalSpam campaigns in Italy from 20 July 2026 to 26 July 2026

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