The Sonicwall threat research team have recently been tracking a new ransomware family called Payola. This family of ransomware appeared in late August 2023. It is written in .NET and is easy to analyze as it contains no obfuscation. Early variants would append “.Payola” to the names of encrypted files but the current variants use 5 random alphanumeric characters. During a direct conversation with the malware operator, remote access to our system was requested in order to retrieve files.
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Source: Sonicwall Security Centre