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Nactarome

Claimed by Lynx · listed 1 year ago

12m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJul 10, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Lynx
Status
Data leaked
Country
Italy
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Jul 10, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Nactarome is a natural flavour, taste, and colour solutions company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Bresso, Italy. With 21 production sites, 850+ employees worldwide, and €300+ million in consolidated revenue, they supply food & beverage manufacturers across 100+ countries with bespoke flavour, taste modifier, texture, and colour solutions.

Industry
Food & Beverage Ingredients – Natural Flavours, Colours & Functional Ingredients
Address
via Giovanni Battista Pirelli N. 30, 20124 Milano (Mi), Italy
Employees
850+
Founded
2018

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data has been published by the group (disclosure status: data_published), indicating confirmed exfiltration. However, no specific data inventory, proof file count, or sensitive category (PII, financial, regulatory) is detailed in the post excerpt. The company handles food ingredient formulations and customer data, which may include proprietary recipes and client information, but without explicit confirmation of regulated or highly sensitive data, severity remains medium.

The Lynx group claims to have compromised Nactarome and published data; no specific operational impact, encryption scope, or exfiltration details are stated in the available post excerpt.

medium

What the group claims

Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Bresso, Italy, Nactarome specializes in developing & manufacturing natural flavours, colours and functional ingredients, with a focus on Food & Beverage markets.

Sources

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

  • July 10, 2025Nactarome 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

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Nactarome is reported in Italy, a country with 635 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Lynx means Nactarome 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, CSIRT Italia (Italy), 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.