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

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

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 374 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, www.mcphillamysgold.com 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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McPhillamys Gold

listed as www.mcphillamysgold.com · Claimed by Lynx · listed 5 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Jan 5, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Lynx
Status: Data leaked
Country: Australia
Sector: Energy
Listed on leak site: Jan 5, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

McPhillamys Gold is an Australian gold mining and exploration company associated with the McPhillamys Gold Project, a significant open-pit gold deposit located near Blayney in New South Wales, Australia. The project is linked to Regis Resources (regisresources.com.au), a leading Australian gold producer, suggesting McPhillamys Gold operates as a project entity or subsidiary within that corporate structure. The McPhillamys project is one of Australia's largest undeveloped gold deposits.

Industry: Gold Mining & Exploration

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published by the group (data_published status), indicating confirmed exfiltration rather than a mere listing. The victim is tied to a publicly listed Australian gold mining company (Regis Resources), meaning leaked data likely includes sensitive business, financial, and operational information of material significance.

The Lynx ransomware group claims to have compromised McPhillamys Gold and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), with the leak post referencing Regis Resources' domain, suggesting exfiltration of data potentially spanning the broader corporate group. No ransom amount or specific data volume has been stated.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate documents
Project data
Financial records
Employee information

What the group claims

https://regisresources.com.au

Sources

Source

Indexed 5 months ago

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