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

February 19, 2026secure.ae listed by Lynxon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, secure.ae is reported in UAE, a country with 41 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.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Secure Engineering LLC

listed as secure.ae · Claimed by Lynx · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 19, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Lynx
Status: Data leaked
Country: UAE
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Feb 19, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Secure Engineering LLC is an Abu Dhabi-based engineering firm founded in 2010, operating four entities covering Project Management, Design & Supervision Consultancy, Facilities Management, and General Contracting. The company serves clients across the UAE, with notable projects for government entities such as the Ministry of Interior and Abu Dhabi Police GHQ. It also maintains a Dubai office in Barsha Heights.

Industry: Engineering Consulting & Contracting
Address: Level 3, Sky Tower, Al Reem Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Founded: 2010

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data exfiltration is claimed and publication is threatened; the victim is an engineering contractor with documented government and critical infrastructure clients (Ministry of Interior, Abu Dhabi Police), raising the sensitivity of any leaked project or operational data.

The Lynx ransomware group claims to have compromised Secure Engineering LLC and threatens to publish all exfiltrated files if the victim does not make contact within 7 days. The post indicates data has been obtained and is staged for full publication.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate files (unspecified)
Project documentation (inferred)
Employee/HR records (inferred)
Client/contract data (inferred)

What the group claims

you have 7 days to contact us, after we will publish all your files.

Sources

Victim sitesecure.ae
Leak posthttp://lynxblogxutufossaeawlij3j3uikaloll5ko6grzhkwdclrjngrfoid.onion/leaks/698d97f79c439c5f45a1953f

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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