Who builds MIKAGE,
and with what.

MIKAGE's (antivirus) signature database is synced on our side from several public YARA rule collections (Elastic Protections Artifacts, ESET Malware-IOC, Google Cloud Threat Intelligence, Icewater, ReversingLabs, Yara-Rules/rules, and others) and combined with our own signature database for distribution. Getting the latest signatures onto your PC currently requires manually clicking "Check for updates" in the app, or running the included command-line tool yourself. Automatic background updates aren't supported yet (it's a development priority going forward).

Simply ingesting public rule collections as-is can pull in "helper rules" that aren't meant for detection at all. For instance, we discovered and fixed a bug where a helper rule meant only to extract domain-like strings caused every file to be incorrectly flagged as "malicious." Read the full story in What Are YARA Rules? How Malware Detection Works — and Where It Fails.