Carbon Black Cloud: Does Carbon Black Cloud provide any protection against Malware distribution via Microsoft Teams chat?

Products

• Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (formerly Cb Defense)

Issue/Introduction

Does Carbon Black Cloud provide any protection against Malware distribution via Microsoft Teams chat?

Environment

    

• Carbon Black Cloud Console: All Supported Versions 

Resolution

As per the Threat Analysis Unit, Malware via Teams will appear much like malware introduced via other applications. CBC will see the events that a file is being written to disk and is performing malicious activity. There's no real details in the article for the specific type of malware, but there's no worry if this could be a unique attack vector that will be missed.

Additional Information

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-slip-into-microsoft-teams-chats-to-distribute-malware/