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It's Turtles All The Way Down

Yet more ransomware targeting macOS! In this post we analyze the newly discovered "Turtle" ransomware and provide both a decryptor and a method to procactively thwart it.

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
It's Turtles All The Way Down
First reported
Nov 30, 2023 05:00 UTC
Last reported
Nov 30, 2023 05:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:48 UTC
Record ID
80421e3e6935abc8ad064b9292dfe39b63e21c8024058b3fe6d8523f957942ba

Published indicators

Network indicators are visibly defanged. This page does not make them clickable or send them to another service.

No validated file hashes or network indicators are stored for this record.

Source observations

src_e03c0eb81ecbe60444

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Nov 30, 2023 05:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:48 UTC

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Feed collection status

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1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 1 unverified.

Review source update dates and status
  • src_e03c0eb81ecbe60444Collection status unverifiedLast successful batch: Unverified

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