Apples App Store and development ecosystem is often described as a walled garden, due to its closed developer ecosystem and stringent security. But a very public incident in September 2015 highlighted a weakness in Apple’s security model that may spell trouble in the future. Developers are an attractive target for propagating advanced attacks because the product of their labor is widely distributed downstream and is trusted by end users and organizations. Apple is moving toward a similar development-and-deployment paradigm for Mac applications potentially exposing them to the same risks as iOS apps.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/the-apple-app-store-incident-trouble-in-paradise-