FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Unknown Cyber Revolutionizes Threat Hunting with Automated Genomic Bytecode YARA Rule Generation: Unmatched Speed, Accuracy, and Resilience to Advanced Threats
Palo Alto, CA – September 12, 2025 – Unknown Cyber, a pioneer in advanced cybersecurity solutions, today announced a groundbreaking advancement in threat hunting: the automated generation of YARA rules based on its proprietary “genomic bytecode” analysis. This revolutionary capability fundamentally shifts the paradigm of threat detection, offering unprecedented speed, superior accuracy, and unparalleled resilience against evasive and polymorphic malware, particularly for in-depth software supply chain security.
Traditional YARA rule creation, often a manual and laborious process reliant on identifying superficial byte patterns, struggles against modern obfuscation techniques. Unknown Cyber’s innovation moves beyond this limitation by mathematically extracting the “genome”—the deterministic, invariant effects on registers and memory—from compiled binaries, even without source code access.
“This is a game-changer for the cybersecurity industry,” said James Hess CEO at Unknown Cyber. “By mathematically deriving the functional identity of code at the bytecode level, we can automatically generate YARA rules that target the core malicious intent, not just surface-level patterns. This means security teams can create highly effective hunt rules in seconds, not hours, and achieve a level of accuracy and resilience against obfuscation that was previously unattainable.”
Key Advantages of Unknown Cyber’s Automated Genomic Bytecode YARA Generation:
- Unmatched Speed: YARA rules are generated automatically based on the extracted genomic bytecode, drastically reducing the time and manual effort traditionally required for signature creation.
- Superior Accuracy & Reduced False Positives: Rules are based on the deterministic functional identity of code, ensuring high-fidelity detections that target core malicious behavior, significantly minimizing irrelevant alerts.
- Inherent Resilience to Obfuscation: By focusing on invariant properties and low-level effects, the generated rules effectively bypass common evasion tactics like polymorphism and metamorphism that defeat traditional signature-based methods.
- Enhanced Threat Hunting & Supply Chain Security: Enables proactive hunting for sophisticated threats, including fileless malware and malicious code injections in open-source dependencies, through a deep understanding of code’s true functional behavior.
The ability automatically rapidly and accurately generate YARA rules based on functional identity, rather than just superficial patterns, empowers threat hunters and significantly strengthens our collective defense against advanced adversaries. This capability delivers powerful analysis from a single laptop to enterprise-wide deployments, making advanced threat detection accessible and available to any security team regardless of skill.
The Company’s breakthroughs in automated YARA generation capability is a testament to Unknown Cyber’s commitment to pushing the boundaries of cybersecurity, offering a robust and intelligent solution to the complex challenges of modern threat detection.
About Unknown Cyber:
Unknown Cyber is a leading innovator in cybersecurity, providing cutting-edge solutions that leverage genomic analysis and advanced AI to deliver deep semantic understanding of software behavior. Our mission is to empower organizations with unparalleled insights into threats, enhance software supply chain security, and provide superior protection against the most advanced cyberattacks.
Unknown Cyber is a leading innovator in cybersecurity, providing cutting-edge solutions that leverage genomic analysis and advanced AI to deliver deep semantic understanding of software behavior. Our mission is to empower organizations with unparalleled insights into threats, enhance software supply chain security, and provide superior protection against the most advanced cyberattacks.
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