Tag: Yara

Oct 31

Veeam v12.1 Malware Detection and YARA

By Christopher GLEMOT in Backup, Cyber Resiliency, Cybersecurity, Malware, Veeam, Veeam B&R 12, Zero Day

Great to be attending the #Veeam100Summit in Prague where the 100 best Veeam engineers come together with the Veeam product team to discuss the next steps in backup technology. Today’s hot topic is Veeams new v12.1 feature allowing for inline malware detection and YARA rule scanning of backup data. To really add emphasis to the …

Entropy, Index Scan, Malware Detection, Secure Restore, Security, SureBackup, v12.1, Veeam, Yara

Nov 24

Identify a piece of malware with Yara

By Christopher GLEMOT in Malware, Ransomware, Security, SOC

Yara rules classify and identify malware samples by creating descriptions of malware families (it is a tool used to identify files, based on textual or binary pattern). YARA rules are like a piece of programming language, they work by defining a number of variables that contain patterns found in a sample of malware. If some …