Disclosure context

About radiant

Based on publicly available information, Radiant is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in October 2025, representing one of the newer threats in the ransomware landscape with a relatively small footprint of eight documented victims to date. The group appears to be financially motivated, following the typical ransomware business model of encrypting victim data and demanding payment for decryption keys. Limited intelligence suggests the group operates independently rather than as a ransomware-as-a-service operation, though insufficient data exists to definitively establish their country of origin or potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited victim count, specific details regarding their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and technical capabilities remain largely undocumented by major security research organizations. Their targeting pattern shows a geographic focus on Western nations including the United States, Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, and Finland, with victim organizations spanning healthcare, transportation and logistics, agriculture and food production, and consumer services sectors. Given the group's recent emergence in late 2025, there are no documented major campaigns, high-profile attacks, or law enforcement actions against Radiant at this time. The group appears to remain active as of current reporting, though their limited operational history and small victim count suggest they are either in early operational phases or operating at a relatively small scale compared to established ransomware enterprises. The group has been linked to 8 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 12, 2025; most recent post October 29, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 12, 2025Kido Schools listed by radianton the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Kido Schools is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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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Kido Schools

Claimed by radiant · listed 7 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Oct 12, 2025
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: radiant
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: Oct 12, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Kido Schools is a United States-based operator of nurseries and preschools that integrates design, technology, and pedagogy to provide early childhood education. The organization positions itself as a premium provider of early-years learning environments. No further operational details are available from the leak post or public site.

Industry: Early Childhood Education (Nurseries & Preschools)

Attack summary

Severity: high — The disclosed status is 'data_published', meaning data has been released. An early childhood education provider would hold sensitive PII for minors and their families, which constitutes regulated/sensitive data. The absence of detail on data volume prevents a 'critical' rating, but the publication of data involving children's records warrants a 'high' classification.

The ransomware group Radiant claims to have compromised Kido Schools and has published data, though the specific nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) and the volume of data involved are not detailed in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student records (potential)
Family/guardian personal information (potential)
Staff records (potential)
Internal school operational data (potential)

What the group claims

We integrate advances in design, technology, and pedagogy to create the highest quality nurseries and preschools.

Sources

Leak posthttp://trfqksm6peaeyz4q6egxbij5n2ih6zrg65of4kwasrejc7hnw2jtxryd.onion/kido

Source

Indexed 7 months ago

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