Was Applied LNG hit by ransomware?

Applied LNG was listed by the blacknevas ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the blacknevas ransomware group?

blacknevas is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Applied LNG breach?

blacknevas published data attributed to Applied LNG. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Applied Natural Gas Fuels, Inc.

listed as Applied LNG · Claimed by Blacknevas · listed 6 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJan 8, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Blacknevas
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Energy
Listed on leak site: Jan 8, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Applied Natural Gas Fuels, Inc. (doing business as Applied LNG) is a Westlake Village, California-based company founded in 1995 and specializing in liquefied natural gas solutions across North America. The company provides turn-key energy services including equipment financing, maintenance, and logistics, with a focus on the motor fuel market and power generation. It was one of the first LNG organizations in the US dedicated to those segments and has accumulated over 20 years of industry expertise.

Industry: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Solutions & Distribution
Address: 5716 Corsa Ave. Ste. 200, Westlake Village, CA 91362, United States
Founded: 1995

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been published (disclosed status: data_published) by the threat actor against a U.S. energy sector company, indicating confirmed exfiltration with public release. The energy sector designation and operational nature of the business elevate severity, though the specific content of the leaked files is not detailed enough to confirm regulated/PII data at scale that would warrant critical.

The blacknevas ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Applied LNG and has published a file listing via an external file-sharing link (Gofile), indicating data has been released rather than merely threatened. No ransom amount or specific data volume was stated.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

File listing (Gofile link)

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

file listing https://gofile.io/d/wsV8hlApplied LNG specializes in providing liquefied natural gas (LNG) solutions for various energy needs, including equipment financing, maintenance, and logistics. The company emphasizes the environmental benefits of natural gas, highlighting its clean-burning properties that contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Founded in 1995, Applied LNG has over 20 years of experience and expertise in the LNG sector, particularly in the motor fuel market and power generation.

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 months ago

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Disclosure context

About blacknevas

Blacknevas is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in August 2025, appearing to be primarily financially motivated based on their targeting patterns and operational characteristics. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their diverse geographic targeting suggests either a distributed operation or broad opportunistic approach. Based on available victim data, Blacknevas has compromised at least 23 organizations across multiple countries, with the United States, Spain, India, Japan, and Thailand being the most frequently targeted nations, while their sector focus spans technology, manufacturing, energy, and consumer services industries, suggesting they employ opportunistic rather than sector-specific targeting methodologies. The group's attack vectors, specific tools, and whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or maintain independent operations have not been publicly documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. Due to the group's recent emergence in August 2025, there is insufficient public reporting from established sources like CISA, FBI, or major threat intelligence providers to detail notable campaigns or significant attacks beyond the confirmed victim count. Given the recency of their first observed activity, Blacknevas appears to remain active as of late 2025, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from authoritative sources have yet to be published. The group has been linked to 36 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 6, 2025; most recent post July 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: black nevas.

Timeline of this disclosure

January 8, 2026Applied LNG listed by blacknevason the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by blacknevas

blacknevas has been linked to 36 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Energy sector, which has 652 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Applied LNG is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by blacknevas means Applied LNG 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on blacknevas'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.