Disclosure context

About beast

The Beast ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in July 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations through their ransomware campaigns. With limited public documentation available from major security agencies, the group has demonstrated activity primarily targeting victims across the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, South Korea, and Argentina, accumulating approximately 65 known victims since their emergence. Their targeting pattern shows a focus on healthcare organizations, manufacturing companies, educational institutions, and construction firms, suggesting an opportunistic approach rather than highly specialized sector expertise. The group's recent emergence means there is insufficient public intelligence from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other established security researchers regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities. Given the timeline of their first observation in mid-2025, Beast represents an active and emerging threat with their current operational status remaining unclear due to limited threat intelligence reporting from authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 75 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2025; most recent post May 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 19, 2026Valufinder Group, Inc. listed by beaston the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $23.83

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.

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Valufinder Group, Inc.

Claimed by beast · listed 2 days ago

$23.83

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 19, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: beast
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: May 19, 2026
Ransom demanded: $23.83

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Valufinder Group, Inc. is a boutique investment banking firm specializing in comprehensive advisory services for mid-sized companies, including business financing and sale transactions. The firm emphasizes a personalized, service-oriented approach aimed at maximizing owner value while maintaining confidentiality throughout the deal process. No specific geographic headquarters or employee count could be confirmed from available sources.

Industry: Boutique Investment Banking & M&A Advisory

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The data is confirmed published (not merely threatened), and as a boutique investment bank handling M&A and financing transactions for mid-sized firms, the compromised data almost certainly includes highly sensitive financial records, deal structures, client PII, and confidential business valuations — constituting regulated financial data at significant scale.

The Beast ransomware group claims to have published data stolen from Valufinder Group, Inc., with the 'PUBLISHED' status indicating exfiltrated data has been released. The specific volume and categories of data published were not detailed in the truncated leak post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client financial records
M&A transaction documents
Business valuation data
Confidential advisory materials
Potentially personally identifiable information of business owners/clients

What the group claims

A boutique investment banking firm recognized as a leader in providing comprehensive advisory services to mid-sized firms. Combines a personalized, service-oriented approach with a proven system for maximizing owner value, minimizing risk, and maintaining confidentiality.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Valufinder Group, Inc. is a boutique investment banking firm, recognized as a leader in providing comprehensive advisory services to mid-sized firms. Our seasoned professionals have mastered both the art and science of presenting businesses for financing or sale. We combine a highly personalized, service-oriented approach with a proven system for maximizing an owner's value, while minimizing risk, maintaining confidentiality, and anticipating and meeting the many challenges inherent in the process
P U B L I S H E D

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Valufinder Group, Inc.

Sources

Leak posthttp://beast6azu4f7fxjakiayhnssybibsgjnmy77a6duufqw5afjzfjhzuqd.onion/card/valufinder_group

Source

Indexed 2 days ago

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