PyPI Disables Sign-ups and Package Uploads Processes Due to Ongoing Attack

Python Package Index (PyPI) maintainers have temporarily suspended user sign-ups and package uploads due to an ongoing attack. This decision seems to be due to a recent surge of newly created rogue accounts and malicious package uploads on the index. “New user and new project name registration on PyPI is temporarily suspended,” PyPI said in a security advisory [https://status.python.org/incidents/qy2t9mjjcc7g]. “The volume of malicious users and malicious projects being created on the index in