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Lynx Ransomware is a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation active since mid-2024. Also known as LynxBlog and lynx_ransomware, it operates an affiliate model and uses double extortion: affiliates exfiltrate victim data, encrypt systems, and threaten publication through Lynx-operated leak and negotiation infrastructure. Lynx has targeted organizations in financial services, manufacturing, architecture and construction, energy, health care, information technology, and food and agriculture. Publicly reported victims include organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany. The Lynx encryptor uses AES-based multithreaded encryption and can locate and mount hidden volumes for encryption. It performs host and file-system discovery, including enumeration of files, system information, network shares, and processes. The malware inhibits recovery by deleting Volume Shadow Copy data through Windows APIs, changes the desktop wallpaper to display a ransom message, and can print ransom notes through locally available printers. Lynx maintains dedicated leak-site and authenticated victim-negotiation portals as part of its extortion workflow. Lynx has been assessed as closely related to the INC Ransom ecosystem based on codebase and operational overlap, although the precise organizational relationship is not conclusively established.
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38 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
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Named as a threat group associated with the separate FortiBleed activity, not as an operator of the JADEPUFFER campaign.
Ransomware variant with substantial code similarity to INC and assessed as a likely successor or closely related offshoot.
Conducted the FortiBleed ransomware campaign jointly with INC; mentioned only as a comparison to the separate PivotC2 activity.
Conducting a ransomware attack against Cutler Capital Management, a U.S. investment advisory firm in the financial-services sector.
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