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id: MAL-2026-17912
title: Malicious code in driftwavets (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in driftwavets (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: driftwavets
product: driftwavets
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - driftwavets
published: '2026-10-17'
updated: '2026-10-17'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-17T17:45:03.244223950Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17912'
references:
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/driftwavets'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-10-18T11:51:09.851Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: kam193 (e69baa6a16626f26b6f71e04ce89a53a693a06c6545446a9addbecfd6c95d92f)
The package belongs to a series of packages falsely advertising 'audio-analysis profiles' loader. In fact, the only purpose is to execute remote code, but the URL is not embedded in the package. It is likely a continuation of the coin-mining campaign 2026-10-voxeval which used similar wording.


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


Campaign: 2026-10-emberlytts


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - other


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


## Affected packages

- `driftwavets`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.