Ransomware victim disclosure

De Waard Transport

Claimed by Play · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

Listed
May 27, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Play
Status: Listed for ransom
Sector: Transportation
Listed on leak site: May 27, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

De Waard Transport is a transportation company. No further operational details are publicly available.

Industry: Transportation & Logistics

Attack summary

Severity: low — Victim is listed on the group's leak site with minimal views (364) and no proof files, operational details, or data inventory disclosed in the excerpt.

Play ransomware group lists De Waard Transport on its leak site. No specific claims regarding encryption, exfiltration, or data types are detailed in the available post excerpt.

low

The leak post

captured from the group's site

| Play ransomware HAS NEVER PROVIDED AND DOES NOT PROVIDE THE RaaS, read the FAQ page.WE NEVER WRITES FIRST, IF SOMEONE WRITES TO YOU, THEY ARE SCAMMERS.If we have not responded to you by email within 12 hours, please leave your contact information on the website in the contact tab.  |  
| --- |  
| De Waard Transport👁️ views: 364added: 2026-05-25publication date: 2026-05-29   | MyPillow👁️ views: 387added: 2026-05-25publication date: 2026-05-29   | Legend Networking & Telecom👁️ views: 352added: 2026-05-25publication date: 2026-05-29   |  
| Round Hill Country Club👁️ views: 362added: 2026-05-25publication date: 2026-05-29   | NL Fisher👁️ views: 392added: 2026-05-25publication date: 2026-05-30   | GW Mechanical👁️ views: 394added: 2026-05-25publication date: 2026-05-30   |  
| Zuther Hautmann👁️ views: 1685   | DURAND-WAYLAND👁️ views: 2405   | Ashcroft Homes👁️ views: 2486   |  
| IWC Food Service👁️ views: 2409   | ACC Construction👁️ views: 2475   | Northern Mechanical Contractors👁️ views: 2480   |

Sources

Leak posthttp://ipi4tiumgzjsym6pyuzrfqrtwskokxokqannmd6sa24shvr7x5kxdvqd.onion

Source

Indexed 5 days 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 1,288 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 26, 2022; most recent post May 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: PlayCrypt.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 27, 2026De Waard Transport listed by Playon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Transportation sector, which has 17 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

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.