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id: MAL-2026-10701
title: Malicious code in discord-telemetry (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in discord-telemetry (PyPI)
severity: none
vendor: discord-telemetry
product: discord-telemetry
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - discord-telemetry
published: '2026-07-16'
updated: '2026-07-16'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-10701'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file-analysis/ZWM2MzcwMWE4NzM5ZjY2MGYzZjBiYTY4NjA0Y2E4YmE6MTc4NDIxMDQzMA==
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/discord-telemetry'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
ingestedAt: '2026-07-16T18:59:41.923Z'
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## Overview


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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


## Affected packages

- `discord-telemetry`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.