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2026W41 Weekly report => 05/10 2K26 - 11/10 2K26 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: FormBook, MilleniumRAT, Remcos and XWormRAT.
      
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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 5 October 2026 to 11 October 2026.

During the week under review, the number of global campaigns fell compared with last week, whilst the number of campaigns in Italian rose.


This week was characterised by Password Stealers from the following families:
FormBook, MilleniumRAT, Remcos and XWormRAT.

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 54
campaigns during the week, 14 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_38 14/09 20/09
Week_39 21/09 27/09
Week_40 28/09 04/10
Week_41 05/10 11/10


During the week, the peak number of global campaigns was recorded on Tuesday 6 October, with 15 different campaigns. The peak number of campaigns in Italian was recorded on Tuesday 6 October, 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 72,23%.
Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) follow in second place with 14,81%.
As for third place
, we find MSIL files with 9,26%.
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 4 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.

05/10/2026
Remcos- spread through three campaigns, two themed around "Orders" and one "Bank transfers".

06/10/2026
FormBook - spread through two campaigns themed around "Orders".
MilleniumRAT - spread through a campaign themed around "Payments".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed around "Requests".

07/10/2026
Remcos- spread through three campaigns, two themed around "Orders" and one "Documents".

08/10/2026
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed around "Orders".
XWormRAT - spread through a campaign themed around "Payments".
09/10/2026
FormBook 
- spread through a campaign themed around "Payments".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed around "Requests".
 

Check out the September/October campaigns

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

28/09/2026 => Weekly report on MalSpam campaigns in Italy from 28 September 2026 to 4 October 2026
21/09/2026 => Weekly report on MalSpam campaigns in Italy from 21 September 2026 to 27 September 2026
14/09/2026 => Weekly report on MalSpam campaigns in Italy from 14 September 2026 to 20 September 2026
07/09/2026 => Weekly report on MalSpam campaigns in Italy from 7 September 2026 to 14 September 2026

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