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 17, 2026gbaco.com 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, gbaco.com is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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Ransomware victim disclosure

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Goff Backa Alfera & Company, LLC

listed as gbaco.com · Claimed by Lynx · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 17, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: Lynx
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Feb 17, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Goff Backa Alfera & Company, LLC is a full-service public accounting and consulting firm serving clients locally, nationally, and internationally. The firm ranks among the top accounting firms in the nation and has been recognized as one of the top 25 places to work in its region. It holds memberships in multiple AICPA quality centers, including the Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center, Center for Public Company Audit Firms, and Governmental Audit Quality Center.

Industry: Public Accounting & Consulting

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a public accounting firm handling sensitive financial, audit, and employee benefit plan data for clients locally, nationally, and internationally. Exfiltration and publication of such data likely involves regulated financial records, PII at scale, and confidential client information across multiple regulated domains (government, public companies, employee benefit plans).

The Lynx ransomware group claims to have attacked Goff Backa Alfera & Company, LLC and has published data from the breach. The disclosed status indicates data has been published, suggesting exfiltration of company and potentially client data.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client financial records
Audit documentation
Employee benefit plan data
Government audit files
Public company audit files
Internal business data

What the group claims

GOFF BACKA ALFERA & COMPANY, LLC is a full-service public accounting and consulting firm serving clients locally, nationally and internationally. Our firm ranks among the top firms in the nation and has been voted by its employees as one of the top 25 places to work in the region. We take pride in providing the highest quality of services to our clients and our memberships in the AICPA's Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center, Center for Public Company Audit Firms and Governmental Audit Quality Center assist our professional staff in achieving this ultimate goal. Our professionals are active leaders and members of numerous professional, educational and community organizations. Our specialized service groups, combined with our client relationship partner and manager structure, are designed to provide our clients with the highest value and technical expertise available without sacrificing the personalized service that is our trademark. In addition to the personal attention our client

Sources

Victim sitegbaco.com
Leak posthttp://lynxchatly4zludmhmi75jrwhycnoqvkxb4prohxmyzf4euf5gjxroad.onion/leaks/69945e6b9c439c5f450dee36

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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