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Playboy ransomware

1 victims listed on the Playboy leak site across 1 countries. Most recent disclosure .

Victims
1
0% of all tracked
Countries
1
Most: Germany
Sectors
1
Most: Business Services
First seen
Oct 2024
In this database

ThreatAI analysis

Compiled from the ransomware.live profile for Playboy and from this database. Figures and technique mappings are quoted from the source data, not inferred.

Who Playboy is

PlayBoy Locker is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in September 2024, targeting Windows, NAS, and ESXi systems across multiple sectors on an 85/15 affiliate revenue split; its source code was reportedly sold underground by late 2024.

Recorded activity

Disclosures attributed to Playboy in this database run from October 2024 to October 2024, totalling 1 victims — 0% of everything tracked here. Playboy has listed victims in 1 countries in this database, most often Germany. The sectors appearing most in its listings are Business Services.

YARA detection rules

playboy.yar 
/*
playboy ransomware
*/

rule playboy_Ransomnote
{
    meta:
        author = "ransomware.live"
        family = "ransomware.playboy"
        description = "Detects playboy ransomware ransom note or artifact"
        date = "2026-05-04"
        severity = 7
        score = 70

    strings:
        $name1 = "playboy" ascii nocase
        $name2 = "PLAYBOY" ascii
        $onion  = "playboy.onion" ascii nocase

    condition:
        any of them
}

Community-contributed rules for Playboy, reproduced as published. Test them against your own corpus before relying on them: rule quality and false-positive behaviour vary by author.

Threat actor analysis

Playboy has disclosed 1 victims on its leak site, 0% of all ransomware listings tracked in this database. Its earliest disclosure here dates to October 2024.

The group has listed organisations in 1 countries, most often in Germany (1 victims).

By industry, its listings concentrate in Business Services — sectors that hold sensitive data or cannot tolerate long outages, both of which raise the pressure to pay.

Like most current ransomware operations, Playboy is likely to use double extortion: data is stolen before files are encrypted, and organisations that refuse to pay are named on the leak site with the stolen data as leverage.

Generated from public leak-site disclosures aggregated via the ransomware.live API and updated automatically.

Playboy victims 1

Organization Disclosed
German Chamber of Commerce
DEGermany

Frequently asked questions

What is Playboy ransomware?

Playboy is a ransomware threat group that has claimed 1 victims since its first known activity in October 2024. The group operates by infiltrating target networks, exfiltrating data, encrypting files, and threatening to publish stolen data on a dark web leak site if the ransom is not paid.

How many victims has Playboy attacked?

Playboy has claimed 1 victims in our database, representing 0% of all tracked ransomware attacks. The most targeted countries are Germany.

Which countries does Playboy target?

Playboy has attacked organizations in 1 countries. The top targeted countries are: Germany.

Which industries does Playboy target?

Playboy most frequently targets the Business Services sectors based on victim disclosures in our database.

Is Playboy still active?

Playboy's most recent victim disclosure in our database was on October 28, 2024. Ransomware groups frequently rebrand or go dormant; monitor this page and our ransomware map for the latest activity.