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Just Because macOS Lets You Install an App Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Malware – Lifehacker Australia
As long as macOS lets you install an app, it should be safe, right? That’s the point of Apple’s Gatekeeper and notary service, which it began to enforce in macOS Catalina back in February. In theory, it means that any app you install on your Mac should have “…

As long as macOS lets you install an app, it should be safe, right? Thats the point of Apples Gatekeeper and notary service, which it began to enforce in macOS Catalina back in February. In theory, it means that any app you install on your Mac should have been checked by Apple for malicious components. But you would be wrong in assuming that any app with a Gatekeeper greenlight is actually safe.
As a recent article from Objective-Sees Patrick Wardle describes, theres a new Mac attack making the…