Apple Fixed Zero-day Vulnerability Exploited By Shlayer Malware

Apple has fixed a zero-day vulnerability in macOS exploited in the wild by Shlayer malware to bypass Apple's File Quarantine, Gatekeeper, and Notarization security checks and download second-stage malicious payloads. Shlayer has been known to use various techniques to disable Gatekeeper in the past by escalating privileges to run unsigned second-stage payloads in a campaign detected by Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit. Read more...