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Salcom

listed as salcom.com · Claimed by Lynx · listed 6 months ago

6m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJan 5, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lynx
Status
Data leaked
Country
Finland
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Jan 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Salcom (Sea Air and Land Communication) is a privately owned New Zealand company that designs and manufactures radio communication hardware and software for marine, aeronautical, terrestrial, and public-safety applications. Borne out of Tait Communications, the company has operated for over 40 years and exports products to most parts of the world. Its customers include emergency services (fire, ambulance, police, hospitals), ports, airports, healthcare providers, and industrial operators.

Industry
Radio & Wireless Communications Hardware & Systems

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed as published (disclosed status: data_published). Salcom supplies critical communications infrastructure to emergency services, hospitals, police, fire, and public-safety organisations, meaning exfiltrated data could include sensitive operational and customer information related to critical infrastructure. The public-safety and critical-infrastructure nature of the victim's clients elevates this beyond a standard business-data breach.

The Lynx ransomware group claims to have attacked Salcom and has published data as part of a disclosed-data leak. The post indicates data has been exfiltrated and published, though no specific data size or ransom demand was stated.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Internal company data
  • Potentially customer records (emergency services, healthcare, public safety organisations)
  • Engineering and product documentation
  • Business communications

What the group claims

Our name is an acronym for Sea Air and Land Communication and as the name implies we have designed and manufactured radio communication hardware for use in marine, aeronautical and terrestrial applications. At Salcom we know most things about getting a radio signal from A to B, whether it's 100 metres or 100 kilometres. Borne out of Tait Communications, the New Zealand communications iconic company, Salcom still has 3 of Tait's original engineers actively involved in technical roles and on the board of directors. After nearly 40 years of being in business and having exported products to most parts of the world Salcom has gained a lot of experience in just about every area of radio communication from emergency marine beacons to airport runway lights control and everything in between. Salcom has been entrusted many times to protect people's lives by providing reliable radio hardware and software for Fire, Ambulance, Hospital and Police services.

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 months ago

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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 414 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2024; most recent post June 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • January 5, 2026salcom.com listed by Lynxon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Lynx

Lynx has been linked to 414 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Lynx dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, salcom.com is reported in Finland, a country with 9 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lynx means salcom.com appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, NCSC-FI (Finland), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Lynx's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.