Northern Light Technologies
Attack Intelligence
Northern Light Technologies was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to qilin in October 2025. The organization, operating in the Technology sector in Canada, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.
qilin operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.
Founded in 1984, Northern Light Technologies (NLT) designs and manufactures underground lighting and networking solutions for the mining and tunnelling industries with manufacturing/assembly locations in Canada, Australia and Chile. Northern ...
Intelligence correlations link this incident to 1 vulnerability(ies) including CVE-2026-0257, which may have been leveraged as initial access vectors or for lateral movement.