Lamashtu

Lamashtu is a ransomware threat actor active by at least 2026 and associated with data-theft-and-extortion incidents against organizations in multiple countries. Reported victims indicate opportunistic or broad targeting rather than a narrowly specialized vertical focus, with observed impacts spanning agriculture and food production, manufacturing, metals, and industrial-related businesses in regions including Egypt, Thailand, India, and Germany.

The group is linked to ransomware intrusions that are publicly characterized as data breaches, indicating operations that likely combine unauthorized network access, data exfiltration, and extortion. Victimology suggests an interest in organizations with operational dependence on continuous business processes and supply chains, a common ransomware targeting pattern intended to maximize coercive pressure.

Publicly available information in this context is limited. There is not enough high-confidence evidence here to attribute Lamashtu to a specific country, state sponsor, or broader ransomware lineage, nor to reliably identify sub-groups, malware families, or a distinctive technical tradecraft profile beyond ransomware-enabled extortion. No corroborated aliases beyond the name Lamashtu are established in the available information.