James Stanger goes into depth about how Yara is a great tool for “searching, finding, and acting on text strings or patterns of binary text within a file for malware detection.”
“I've also seen security professionals use Yara during an actual [malware] attack,” he said. “Once they've determined that a system has been compromised, they'll use Yara to quickly determine if the attack has spread to other systems.”
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