RubyGems Suspends New Signups After Hundreds of Malicious Packages Are Uploaded

RubyGems , the standard package manager for the Ruby programming language, has temporarily paused account signups following what has been described as a "major malicious attack." "We're dealing with a major malicious attack on RubyGems right now," Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager for...

PyPI Repository Under Attack: User Sign-Ups and Package Uploads Temporarily Halted

The maintainers of Python Package Index PyPI, the official third-party software repository for the Python programming language, have temporarily disabled the ability for users to sign up and upload new packages until further notice. "The volume of malicious users and malicious projects being...