Disclosure context

About radar

Radar is an emerging ransomware group that first appeared in September 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple sectors and countries. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their geographic targeting suggests a focus on English-speaking nations and select international markets. Based on available victim data, Radar appears to employ opportunistic targeting methods that have successfully compromised 23 organizations across diverse sectors including construction, financial services, transportation/logistics, and technology, with operations spanning the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Kuwait, and other regions. The group's attack methodology, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies. No significant high-profile campaigns, major ransoms, or law enforcement disruption actions against Radar have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or established security research organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public intelligence reporting, Radar's current operational status and long-term capabilities remain under assessment by the cybersecurity community. The group has been linked to 26 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 10, 2025; most recent post May 18, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 29, 2026Bentley Capital Ventures listed by radaron the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 516 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Bentley Capital Ventures is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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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Bentley Capital Ventures

Claimed by radar · listed 21 days ago

21d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 29, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: radar
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Financial Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Bentley Capital Ventures is a US-based small business financing firm founded in 2012 that helps business owners obtain capital through a range of products including short-term loans, equipment financing, SBA loans, revenue-based loans, and business lines of credit. The company leverages relationships in consumer and commercial banking to serve clients who may not qualify for traditional bank financing. It operates nationally and is reachable via a toll-free number (844-836-8879).

Industry: Small Business Lending & Capital Advisory
Founded: 2012

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Bentley Capital Ventures collects and processes sensitive financial PII at scale — including names, contact details, gross sales figures, and loan application data from small business owners nationwide. Data has been confirmed published by the threat actor, meaning regulated financial consumer data is actively exposed.

The Radar ransomware group claims to have compromised Bentley Capital Ventures and has published data from the attack. The disclosed status indicates data has been published, though the specific volume of exfiltrated data and whether encryption occurred are not detailed in the post.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Business loan applications
Client financial records (gross sales figures)
Client PII (names, emails, phone numbers)
Desired loan amount disclosures
Internal business/banking relationship data

What the group claims

https://www.linkedin.com/company/bentley-capital-ventures We started Bentley Capital Ventures in 2012 to facilitate small business owners across the country in the process of obtaining capital. We know a simple trip to the local bank doesnt always provide the results many are looking for and as business owners ourselves we know how challenging it can be to obtain capital when you dont fit within the guidelines of the traditional banking world. At Bentley Capital we use the relationships we have built over the last 25 years in both the consumer and commercial banking markets to provide our clients with the very best options available for their specific situation. Whether you have perfect or less than perfect credit our goal will always be to provide you with options that promote growth and properity for your business.

Sources

Victim sitebentleycapitalventures.com

Source

Indexed 21 days ago

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