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Inflite Engineering Services

bd_d7cad30d59e5518d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jun 24, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Inflite Engineering Services

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: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2025-06-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Founded in 1983 Inflite has developed progressively to become one of the most important Prime Suppliers to the Aerospace Industry. Our business is based around four Divisions - each possessing knowledge and expertise that are second to none in their respective sectors. The Inflite Group provides design, machining, fabrication, component repair, electrical loom manufacture, and surface treatment services, to the Aerospace and Defence Industries. The company was founded in 1983 and has grown steadily to reach an annual turnover in excess of £45 million. The Inflite Divisions are based in comprehensive, new, purpose-built manufacturing facilities at Stansted and Chelmsford in Essex and in Manchester. The total surface area occupied by the Group exceeds 600,000 square feet, and is one of the largest privately owned facilities of its kind in the UK. The Inflite group of companies provides a complete spectrum of skills in all areas of manufacture, undertaking total responsibility for the condition of supply, in accordance with the customer's specifications, whether the requirement calls for components, assemblies or turnkey items. Aerospace Surface Treatments (AST) is part of the Swan Investments Group and a sister company of Inflite Jet Centre and Inflite Engineering Services. AST was formed in 1996 from the treatments division of HE Ltd. Soon after that date a manufacturing division was added mainly to support the manufacturing facility at Inflite Engineering Services. The companies activities in the corporate market continues with the development of a new FBO facility at Stansted, recognised as the benchmark for the corporate market. In 2005 the facility became an Embraer Authorised Service Centre.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jun 24, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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

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.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • 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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