The popular cyber security researcher Patrick Wardle published a detailed analysis of the new macOS ransomware Turtle.

Wardle pointed out that since Turtle was uploaded on Virus Total, it was labeled as malicious by 24 anti-malware solutions, suggesting it is not a sophisticated threat. However, the malicious code was generally detected as “Other:Malware-gen”, “Trojan.Generic”, or “Possible Threat”. In some cases, the anti-virus solution flagged the binary as Windows malware (“Win32.Troj.Undef”).