Was Woodtect hit by ransomware?

Woodtect was listed by the Lynx 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 Lynx ransomware group?

Lynx 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 Woodtect breach?

Lynx published data attributed to Woodtect. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Precision Engineering Co., Ltd.

listed as Woodtect · Claimed by Lynx · listed 1 year ago

12m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 27, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Lynx
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Jun 27, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Precision Engineering Co., Ltd. is a Thai manufacturer and distributor of premium wood stains, polyurethane coatings, and wood preservatives established in 1972. Operating under the Woodtect and Hero brands, the company produces coatings for interior and exterior woodwork, concrete, fiber-cement, and metal applications, and serves as the sole distributor of LORD Corporation's Chemglaze polyurethane products in Thailand.

Industry: Specialty Coatings & Wood Preservatives
Address: 153/13 Soi Rong Muang 3, Rong Muang Road, Rong Muang Subdistrict, Pathumwan District, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Founded: 1972

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post is minimal and contains only a company description with no proof files, no data inventory details, and no operational impact stated. No confirmation of exfiltration or encryption damage.

The ransomware group Lynx claims to have compromised Precision Engineering Co., Ltd. The leak post provides no explicit detail of whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it specify what data categories are at stake.

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What the group claims

PRECISION ENGINEERING CO., LTD. is a specialist in hard oil, polyurethane, and wood stain and wood preservatives since 1972. The company aims to distribute only premium quality products that can be used for both exterior and interior woodwork, as well as many other home care products. Since its establishment, the company has been appointed as the sole distributor of LORD CORPORATION products from the United States in Thailand. The main product imported from LORD Corporation is Chemglaze Polyurethane (CHEMGLAZE), a hard oil for interior woodwork and wood floors.

Sources

Victim sitewoodtect.com
Leak posthttp://lynxchatly4zludmhmi75jrwhycnoqvkxb4prohxmyzf4euf5gjxroad.onion/leaks/685df0c1e2d7f43c8f253f41

Source

Indexed 1 year 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

June 27, 2025Woodtect 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:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, Woodtect is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lynx means Woodtect 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 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.