Ransomware victim disclosure

NL Fisher

Claimed by play · listed 6 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 25, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: play
Status: Data leaked
Country: NL
Sector: Agriculture and Food Production
Listed on leak site: May 25, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NL Fisher is an engineering and consulting firm specializing in well construction, supervision, and oil and gas project management. Based in Calgary, Alberta, they provide services including drilling, completions, construction field supervision, pipelines, facilities, and abandonment work across Canadian oil and gas basins.

Industry: Oil & Gas Engineering Services
Address: 522 - 11th Avenue SW, Second Floor, Calgary, AB T2R 0C8, Canada

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data confirmed as published by ransomware operator (disclosed status: data_published), but the leak post excerpt is severely truncated and provides no detail on data type, volume, or proof files. No encryption impact or operational disruption stated. Classification as medium pending visibility of actual proof and data inventory.

The Play ransomware group claims to have attacked NL Fisher and published data. The leak post provides minimal detail on the nature of exfiltration or encryption.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business records
Client information
Project data
Engineering documentation

What the group claims

Canada

Sources

Victim sitewww.nlfisher.com
Leak posthttp://j75o7xvvsm4lpsjhkjvb4wl2q6ajegvabe6oswthuaubbykk4xkzgpid.onion/topic.php?id=djf1JVEPzgEe5

Source

Indexed 6 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 25, 2026NL Fisher 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, NL Fisher is reported in NL, a country with 24 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.