Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM, concerning Italian malspam campaigns.
This week was dominated by Password Stealers from the following families:
Below are the details of the campaigns released during the week from 04 May 2026 to 10 May 2026.
During the week under review, the number of global campaigns fell compared to the previous week, whilst the number of campaigns in Italian increased.
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 51 campaigns during the week, 8 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_16 | 13/04 | 19/04 |
| Week_17 | 20/04 | 26/04 |
| Week_18 | 27/04 | 03/05 |
| Week_19 | 04/05 | 10/05 |
During the week, the peak in global campaigns was recorded on Monday 04 May, with 17 different campaigns. The peak in campaigns in Italian was recorded on Monday 04 May, 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 54,90%.
Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) follow in second place with 25,49%.
As for third place, we find MSIL files with 15,69%.
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.
04/05/2026
PureHVNC - spread through a campaign themed: "Orders".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed: "Requests".
05/05/2026
PureHVNC - veicolato tramite una campagna a tema "Orders".
VIPKeylogger - spread through a campaign themed: "Requests".
07/05/2026
PureHVNC - spread through a campaign themed: "Invoices".
08/05/2026
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed: "Shipments".
PureHVNC - spread through a campaign themed: "Documents".
We invite you to check out the April/May 2026 reports, to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:
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