diff --git a/ports/yara/CONTROL b/ports/yara/CONTROL
deleted file mode 100644
index fdd5e4f85b..0000000000
--- a/ports/yara/CONTROL
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Source: yara
-Version: 4.0.2
-Homepage: https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara
-Description: The pattern matching swiss knife
-Build-Depends: openssl, jansson
diff --git a/ports/yara/portfile.cmake b/ports/yara/portfile.cmake
index 4dbcf958e9..3b159f2e73 100644
--- a/ports/yara/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/yara/portfile.cmake
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ vcpkg_check_linkage(ONLY_STATIC_LIBRARY)
 vcpkg_from_github(
   OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
   REPO VirusTotal/yara
-  REF v4.0.2
-  SHA512 22575cb7b48eead3b5051ce13beb3deef88a1b605de20ec8e5fc2651c0dd0009eb6c0ecddb8600a43a757ceb6ea298e94f71a26d2f9acb31a73830e18c81d10c
+  REF e1360f6cbe3d8daf350018661bc6772bd5b726f2 #v4.1.0
+  SHA512 55f55ed41af1049e500f77f6d02fb6992dabd84efb906ff0b3ba746b3c5d890cb622845622692f230dad51a510c068c0a0195932c8931d3e56c71fc17d8769d5
   HEAD_REF dev
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/yara/vcpkg.json b/ports/yara/vcpkg.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..75b40876b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/yara/vcpkg.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "name": "yara",
+  "version": "4.1.0",
+  "description": "The pattern matching swiss knife",
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara",
+  "dependencies": [
+    "jansson",
+    "openssl"
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index b3f68b47f3..3d78040e00 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -6613,7 +6613,7 @@
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "yara": {
-      "baseline": "4.0.2",
+      "baseline": "4.1.0",
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "yas": {
diff --git a/versions/y-/yara.json b/versions/y-/yara.json
index 87eb764253..b1a01fbc1f 100644
--- a/versions/y-/yara.json
+++ b/versions/y-/yara.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "9dfbd10f01283a8a8cf15ddb60db75e5635d3a69",
+      "version": "4.1.0",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "05877091cce367e06a5d4e06ed69484d92e420d0",
       "version-string": "4.0.2",