Disclosure context

About Lynx

Lynx is a relatively new ransomware group that emerged in July 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating rapid scaling capabilities with 397 documented victims within their first few months of operation. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their targeting patterns suggest a sophisticated operation that may operate independently rather than as a traditional Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Based on their victim distribution, Lynx appears to employ broad-spectrum targeting methodologies focusing heavily on English-speaking countries, with the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and Australia representing their primary geographic targets, while concentrating their attacks on manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation/logistics sectors, though specific technical details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methods, and data exfiltration practices have not yet been extensively documented by major security research organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents that have gained significant public attention from law enforcement agencies or established threat intelligence firms. As of late 2024, Lynx appears to remain active with no reported law enforcement disruptions or operational changes. The group has been linked to 410 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2024; most recent post May 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

March 13, 2026Africa Insurance listed by Lynxon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Africa Insurance is reported in ET.

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.

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Lion of Africa Insurance Company Ltd

listed as Africa Insurance · Claimed by Lynx · listed 2 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Mar 13, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Lynx
Status: Data leaked
Country: ET
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Mar 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Lion of Africa Insurance Company Ltd is an insurance company headquartered in Sandton, South Africa. It employs between 100 and 249 people and reports annual revenue in the range of $10 million to $25 million. The company operates within the broader financial services sector.

Industry: Insurance
Address: Sandton, South Africa
Employees: 100-249

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the threat actor against an insurance company, which likely holds sensitive financial and personal customer data (PII, policy records, financial records). Published data from a financial/insurance entity constitutes confirmed exfiltration of significant sensitive business data, warranting a high severity rating.

The Lynx ransomware group claims to have attacked Lion of Africa Insurance Company Ltd and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data, though the specific volume and nature of files disclosed are not quantified in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Company data (unspecified)

What the group claims

Lion of Africa Insurance Company Ltd is a company that operates in the Insurance industry. It employs 100to249 people and has 10Mto25M of revenue. The company is headquartered in Sandton, South Africa.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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