YARA 4.0.0 Released With Important New Features

2020-04-30 12:38

YARA 4.0.0 was released on Wednesday with some important new features and performance improvements.

The previous update to YARA, version 3.11.0, was released in October 2019, but Victor Alvarez, the creator of YARA, who currently works as a software engineer for Google's VirusTotal service, on April 29 announced the release of version 4.0.0.

The latest major release of YARA includes new string modifiers, API changes, a reduced memory footprint, improvements to the PE and Cuckoo modules, and various bug fixes.

Kaspersky's Costin Raiu, who is an expert on YARA and who on Wednesday hosted a short workshop on using Yara at Kaspersky's virtual event, said YARA 4 brings a few new features that researchers have been hoping to see for some time.

YARA has been highly useful to many cybersecurity companies and researchers, often helping them identify zero-day exploits, new malware, and interesting links.

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