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Valufinder Group, Inc.

Claimed by Beast · listed 2 months ago

$23.83
Ransom
demanded
57d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 19, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Beast
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
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

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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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 104 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2025; most recent post June 11, 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

Other recent disclosures by beast

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,184 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Valufinder Group, Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by beast means Valufinder Group, Inc. appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on beast's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

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.