Filippo Cavallarin, CEO and chief security researcher at Segment, a cybersecurity company based near Venice, Italy, has discovered a way to skirt around Apple’s Gatekeeper feature. Gatekeeper is Apple’s feature for keeping bad apps off a machine. The exploit would work like this: An attacker sends a. zip file to a victim with a symbolic link that leads to an end point the attacker controls. The victim is in a location controlled by the attacker but trusted by Gatekeeper, so any attacker-controlled. executable can be run without any warning.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/researcher-finds-new-way-around-apples-gatekeeper-a-12525