Ransomware victim disclosure

Urschel Laboratories

Claimed by play · listed 6 hours ago

Today

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jun 4, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: play
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: Jun 4, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Urschel Laboratories is the world's leading manufacturer of industrial food cutting machines, serving food processors globally. The company designs and sells dicers, slicers, shredders, milling equipment, and related machinery for processing fruits, vegetables, potatoes, meat, dairy, bakery goods, and other food products. They operate internationally with sales and service networks across multiple continents.

Industry: Food Processing Equipment Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only a country name with no proof files, screenshots, data samples, ransom demand, or operational impact claim. This appears to be a bare listing or announcement with no substantive evidence of compromise.

The Play ransomware group claims an attack on Urschel Laboratories. The group's leak post provides minimal detail—only listing the United States as the location—with no explicit statement of encryption, data exfiltration, or ransom demand.

low

What the group claims

United States

Sources

Victim sitewww.urschel.com
Leak posthttp://j75o7xvvsm4lpsjhkjvb4wl2q6ajegvabe6oswthuaubbykk4xkzgpid.onion/topic.php?id=2bzaKMUnM6atgz

Source

Indexed 6 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About play

**Overview:** Play (also known as PlayCrypt) is a financially motivated ransomware group that emerged in late 2022, conducting targeted attacks against organizations across multiple sectors with a focus on financial extortion. **Origin & Affiliation:** The group's country of origin remains unclear based on public reporting, though they appear to operate independently rather than as a traditional ransomware-as-a-service model. **Attack Methodology:** Play ransomware operators typically gain initial access through compromised Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials and exploit valid accounts, then move laterally through networks using tools like Cobalt Strike before deploying their custom ransomware payload. The group employs double extortion tactics, stealing sensitive data before encryption and threatening to publish it on their leak site if ransom demands are not met. **Notable Campaigns:** According to CISA advisories, Play has targeted over 300 entities globally since its emergence, with significant impacts on critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, education, and government services, though specific ransom amounts and individual victim details vary in public reporting. **Current Status:** Play remains an active threat as of 2024, continuing to target organizations primarily in North America and Europe according to ongoing security researcher observations and law enforcement warnings. The group has been linked to 1,298 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 26, 2022; most recent post June 5, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: PlayCrypt.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 4, 2026Urschel Laboratories listed by playon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture and Food Production sector, which has 536 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Urschel Laboratories is reported in US, a country with 2,714 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.