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Vicarage Court Solicitors

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Apr 24, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
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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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2025-04-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

At Vicarage Court Solicitors we aim to provide you with expert advice concerning the most important decisions for you and your loved ones when making a Will. We pride ourselves on providing a friendly and sympathetic yet highly professional service to clients during very distressing times and look to administer a deceased estate comprehensively and as speedily as we can whilst reducing the worry and stress which can be brought on by such a daunting task. In addition, we offer advice and assistance on all other private client matters including, advising on Trusts and Tax Planning, Inheritance Tax together with registration of Enduring Powers of Attorney, creation of Lasting Powers of Attorney and applying to the Court of Protection for Deputyships under the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 24, 2025

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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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.

Source ceiling

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  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

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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