Iain Thomson at 12:26PM, Friday 20th October 2006

Malware writers use the launch of new Tatu album to recruit more PCs to botnet and harvest information

Malware writers are becoming increasingly attuned to the commercial world, as the spamming of a Trojan about Russian faux lesbian band Tatu shows.

The emails began circulating last night and have been heavily spammed to coincide with the band releasing a 'best of' album. The email includes a zipped file containing pictures of the band but also include a Trojan program called Banito that allows remote code execution and includes a keylogger.

Spotted here