These cloud-based solutions from Sony provide end users with the ability to automate BRAVIA professional display provisioning, configuration and enrollment processes to reduce time required to deploy at scale, while dramatically improving accuracy for MSP asset management tools, says Sony. Additionally, the platform offers remote capabilities, making the displays easily manageable on-premises or offsite.

Powerful Device Management Platform

“With the introduction of our powerful Device Management Platform, our professional BRAVIA displays can now be quickly deployed, automated and controlled from virtually anywhere,” Rich Ventura, vice president of professional display solutions, Sony Electronics, says. “This new platform not only substantially reduces installation times, resource demands and complexity for Managed Service Providers, but it helps contribute to users’ sustainability goals by reducing the need for operators, technicians and support personnel to travel on-site which translates to a smaller carbon footprint.”

The professional display DMP can be employed on singular installations. Alternatively, it can provide a path for scalable provisioning across large-scale deployments.  The platform’s provisioning tool can be used separately or in conjunction with the remote device management option.

The user-friendly solutions also provide valuable and granular insights, such as device location alerts and on/off status. These, of course, can reduce the likelihood of, or the average resolution time for, potential performance issues. With a set of device management tools and open APIs, MSPs can also perform remote software and firmware updates, analysis and issue resolution for Sony’s professional BRAVIAs from the Network Operations Center (NOC).

Sony’s Professional 4K HDR BRAVIA System-on-Chip displays, available in sizes ranging from 32 inches to 100 inches (diagonal), are based on a secure Android TV operating system. With the use of Sony’s DMP, the displays add SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 compliant cloud management solutions. This, therefore, provides IT and AV professionals with additional confidence, security and peace of mind.

Sony’s Device Management Platform for the company’s professional display solutions is expected to be available in early 2023.

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Specifically, researchers narrowed in on a fall 2021 campaign that utilized variants of known remote access trojans that were deployed and delivered via cloud services. The remote administration tools (RATs) were packed with features that allowed the operator to take control over the victim’s environment and execute arbitrary commands remotely, researchers say.

As with many large-scale cyberattacks, the initial infection vector in this case is a phishing email with a malicious ZIP attachment that contains an ISO image with a malicious loader in the form of JavaScript, a Windows batch file or Visual Basic script, according to Cisco Talos.

When the initial script is executed on the victim’s computer, it connects to a download server to download the next stage, which can be hosted on an Azure cloud-based Windows server of an AWS EC2 instance.

The hackers registered several malicious subdomains using DuckDNS, a free dynamic DNS service, to deliver the malware payload. The hackers use this to regularly change the IP addresses of C2 servers and quickly add new subdomains.

Researchers also discovered an obfuscated PowerShell dropper script built by HCrypt builder associated with the download servers of the campaign.

According to researchers, the malware families used are variants of the Netwire, Nanocore and AsyncRAT remote access trojans.

According to Cisco Talos, this research demonstrates that threat actors are increasingly using cloud services to carry out their malicious activities.

To prevent against these kind of attacks, Cisco Talos advises organizations to monitor their outgoing connections to cloud computing services for malicious traffic. The company also urges organizations to take a multi-layered approach to security.

“Defenders should monitor traffic to their organization and implement robust rules around the script execution policies on their endpoints,” researchers say. “It is even more important for organizations to improve email security to detect and mitigate malicious email messages and break the infection chain as early as possible.”

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