A new wave of malware targeting MacOS has raised the profile of the operating system once advertised as much safer than Windows. The newest attack code for the Mac includes three pieces of malware found in June. The zero-day exploit, dubbed OSX/Linker by researchers at Intego who discovered it, takes advantage of a vulnerability in MacOS Gatekeeper. The vulnerability itself is in the way GateKeeper treats files on the local network, which don’t receive the same locked-down scrutiny as files from the Internet.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/new-macos-malware-discovered