Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM, concerning Italian malspam campaigns.
Below are the details of the campaigns spread during the week from 14 September 2026 to 20 September 2026.
During the week under review, global campaigns remained on a par with the previous week, whilst campaigns in Italian decreased compared with the previous week.
This week was characterised by Password Stealers from the following families: AgentTesla, FormBook, Remcos and VIPKeylogger.
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 53 campaigns during the week, 7 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 |
tol |
| Week_35 |
24/08 |
30/08 |
| Week_36 |
31/08 |
06/09 |
| Week_37 |
07/09 |
13/09 |
| Week_38 |
14/09 |
20/09 |
During the week, the peak number of global campaigns was recorded on Thursday 17 September, with 13 different campaigns. The peak number of campaigns in Italian was recorded on Thursday 17 September, with 3 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 60,38%.
In joint second place were Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and MSIL files, with 18.87%.
As for third place, we find WIN32 files with 1,88%.
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 5 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.
14/09/2026
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed around "Payments".
15/09/2026
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed around "Orders".
16/09/2026
Downloader - spread through a campaign themed around "Invoices".
17/09/2026
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed around "Prices".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed around "Requests".
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed around "Payments".
19/09/2026
AgentTesla- spread through a campaign themed around "Orders".
Check out the August/September campaigns
We invite you to check out the August/September 2026 reports, to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:
