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Biogest AG

bd_78d36910a305dc9f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Jun 2, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Biogest AG

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Lynx on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: EnergyDiscovered: 2025-06-12

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Biogest offers its PowerRing technology to customers in the Greek market. The PowerRing system and its outstanding mixing technology has proven its worth during long-term operation and its possibility to operate with many different feedstocks like animal manures, straw and agro-industrial residues. The PowerRing technology draws on an extremely low proportion of the power it generates, because of the mixing technique, feeding system and overall design. Biogest is an internationally active biogas plant manufacturer and operator with its headquarters in Austria and subsidiaries in the UK, France, US, Italy, Romania, Serbia and the Czech Republic. More than 150 biogas plant projects generating electricity or biomethane have been completed to date. Our reference plants are located in several European countries and the global market is served by licenced partners. Elakmonis a Greek company with a presence in the sector of renewable energy and disposes over 50 years' experience of its execut

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jun 2, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

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About this groupFirst seen 2023-05-22

lynx

According to ransomware.live, Lynx is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in mid-2024 as a rebrand of INC Ransomware (whose source code was sold for $300,000 on the RAMP forum), claiming ~300 victims across manufacturing, business services, technology, and transportation with an 80/20 profit split for affiliates.

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