Gatekeeper bypass in OS X relies on renaming an app

Macworld
Sep 30, 2015, 3:00 pm255 pts
A researcher has discovered that the OS X Gatekeeper setting to restrict app launching only to those cryptographically signed by Apple or to both Apple and third-party developers has a flaw: A signed app can access other software or components that have been replaced with malware without a separate…

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