The Hacker News - PyPI Halts Sign-Ups Amid Surge of Malicious Package Uploads Targeting Developers

The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository briefly suspended new user sign-ups following an influx of malicious projects uploaded as part of a typosquatting campaign. It said "new project creation and new user registration" was temporarily halted to mitigate what it said was a "malware upload campaign." The incident was resolved 10 hours later, on March 28, 2024, at

from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2024/03/pypi-halts-sign-ups-amid-surge-of.html

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