Was Valufinder Group hit by ransomware?

Valufinder Group was listed by the beast ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the beast ransomware group?

beast is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Valufinder Group breach?

beast published data attributed to Valufinder Group. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Valufinder Group

Claimed by Beast · listed 10 months ago

$23.83

Ransom

demanded

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedSep 24, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Beast
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Listed on leak site: Sep 24, 2025
Ransom demanded: $23.83

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Valufinder Group is a United States-based middle-market buy-side acquisition search and advisory firm operating since 1978. The company provides proprietary outreach and deal-sourcing services to corporate acquirers and private equity buyers seeking platform or add-on acquisitions. Its flagship service, DealStar, offers systematic target identification, market mapping, and expert network access.

Industry: Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory (Buy-Side)
Employees: 11-50
Founded: 1978

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been marked as published by the ransomware group. As an M&A advisory firm, Valufinder's data likely contains highly sensitive confidential business information, deal terms, target company profiles, and client identities — exposure of which would be materially damaging to clients and counterparties.

The Beast ransomware group claims to have published data belonging to Valufinder Group, listing the victim under a 'data_published' status. The leak post appears as part of a broader multi-victim listing on the group's Tor-based site, with no specific data volume stated.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client acquisition records
Transaction documentation
Business development communications
Company financial/deal data
Employee and contact information

What the group claims

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

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Victim sitewww.valufindergroup.com
Leak posthttp://beast6azu4f7fxjakiayhnssybibsgjnmy77a6duufqw5afjzfjhzuqd.onion/card/valufinder_group

Source

Indexed 10 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

September 24, 2025Valufinder Group listed by beaston the group's public leak site

Ransom demanded: $23.83

Sector and geography

Geographically, Valufinder Group 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 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.