@osmf-board Can you give a comment on this? What are our plans for the defence?
What is currently preventing restrictions on new accounts? At least this Add support for rate limiting signup requests by tomhughes · Pull Request #4198 · openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website · GitHub
Knowing the difficult nature of osm.org maintainers I would like to draw your attention to the problem and get a response from you.
DWG and the community has been wasting effort for a week now. It takes a day to fix the consequences. We should be wary of the same vandalism on a worldwide scale. And the vandalism may take a form that will be difficult to eliminate with existing tools.