User level: Level 1 (4 points)Suddenly my photo-program (Cyberlink Photodirector 12) was ,by Apple, considered a threat to the OS (Monterey) and should be deleted. I have used it since 2019. Why?
Posted on Oct 29, 2026 1:14 PM
User level: Level 9 (55,707 points)Oct 30, 2026 6:43 PM in response to Gogol47
Here's a thread that may shed some light on the issue.
Cyberlink Power Director & Application Ma… - Apple Community
Sounds like the certificate that CyberLink had been using to sign their macOS apps expired. It's common practice for security certificates to have expiration dates, so that if an attacker breaks the cryptography, the attack window doesn't stay open forever. The downside: this causes things like the expiration of cached macOS installers, or like Web sites triggering security warnings if their maintainers fail to update certificates in time.
Or, apparently, in this case triggering macOS defenses meant to help keep you from running malware. As long as the certificate expiration date was in the future (e.g., "late 2026" when you were running it in 2019), the program passed the "sniff test". Then "the future" arrived and the program didn't pass the "sniff test" any more.
Sounds like CyberLink wants you to download a new version of the application (see link posted by MartinR) … one signed with a new certificate whose expiration date is once again in the future.
User level: Level 7 (27,833 points)Oct 29, 2026 1:31 PM in response to Gogol47
Cyberlink is aware of the problem and it's on them to fix it.
"We’re aware that Mac users are seeing a macOS security warning when trying to open CyberLink applications, including PhotoDirector and CyberLink Application Manager. This is related to the current iOS/macOS service situation affecting CyberLink products. At this time, PhotoDirector 365 for Mac cannot be opened, and PhotoDirector iOS downloads and updates are currently suspended while we work to restore availability."
They don't go on to define what the "service situation" is but it's something Cyberlink must fix.
https://support.cyberlink.com/faq/ios-macOS-service-update
Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256385506