Disclosure context

About Lorenz

Lorenz is a ransomware group that emerged in January 2020 and operates primarily for financial gain, having claimed approximately 78 victims across multiple sectors. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence organizations, though their targeting patterns suggest a focus on English-speaking nations including the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Lorenz primarily targets healthcare, finance, automotive, construction, and retail sectors, suggesting they may opportunistically attack organizations with valuable data and limited security resources rather than following a specific geopolitical agenda. While detailed technical analysis of their attack methodology has not been extensively published by major security firms like Mandiant or government agencies such as CISA, the group appears to follow typical ransomware deployment patterns common to financially-motivated cybercriminal organizations. Public documentation of specific high-profile campaigns, notable victims, or significant law enforcement actions against Lorenz remains limited in open-source intelligence reporting. Based on available victim data extending beyond 2020, the group appears to have maintained some level of operational activity, though comprehensive assessments of their current operational status have not been widely published by authoritative sources in the threat intelligence community. The group has been linked to 78 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on January 12, 2020; most recent post December 11, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 5, 2023NGS Super listed by Lorenzon 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, NGS Super is reported in Australia, a country with 368 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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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NGS Super

Claimed by Lorenz · listed 3 years ago

38m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 5, 2023
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Lorenz
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 5, 2023

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

NGS Super is an Australian industry superannuation fund providing retirement savings and pension management services, primarily serving employees in the education and community sectors. The fund manages member superannuation accounts and offers retirement planning products. It operates nationally within Australia under the regulatory framework for superannuation funds.

Industry: Superannuation & Retirement Funds
Employees: 51-200

Attack summary

Severity: critical — NGS Super is a superannuation (pension) fund holding highly sensitive regulated financial and personal data on potentially tens of thousands of members, including PII and retirement account details. Data has been published, indicating confirmed exfiltration of regulated financial/PII data at scale.

The Lorenz ransomware group claims an attack against NGS Super, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating exfiltrated data has been released. No specific ransom amount or data volume was stated in the available post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Member personal information
Retirement account data
Financial records
Employee data

Sources

Victim sitengssuper.com.au

Source

Indexed 3 years ago

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