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MAL-2026-10701

Malicious code in discord-telemetry (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (b8a926675ed9f43b0067def4bd625208d08a08c8750fd3c2f9f7bfd6138e3d4d) During installation, the package downloads and executes a remote executable. Before 0.1.5, the code contained local-only tests of malicious behaviour.

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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2026-07-discord-telemetry

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

- malware

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Affected packages

PyPI / discord-telemetry

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References