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