Playground Ransomware Process Creation

Ankit Mehta@Secvyn

•updated Jun 17, 2026•0•0•5

This rule detects the creation of processes with command-line arguments indicative of 'Playground' ransomware activity. It specifically looks for 'playground', 'pgd-ransom', or 'playground-drop' in the command line of newly created processes (EventID 4688).