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theLender

Claimed by Termite · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 22, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Termite
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Financial Services
Listed on leak site
Sep 22, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

theLender is a national mortgage lender offering non-QM, DSCR, bank statement, and alternative documentation loan products to borrowers and brokers across 48 states. Founded by industry veterans, the company has funded $15.4B in loans, served 40,000+ clients, and was ranked Inc. 5000 No. 1 Fastest Growing Real Estate Company in 2022.

Industry
Mortgage Lending & Real Estate Finance
Founded
2014

Attack summary

Severity: low — Only a company description announcement is included in the leak post; no proof files, screenshots, or specific claims of data exfiltration or encryption are documented.

The termite group claims to have breached theLender but the leak post excerpt provided contains only marketing copy about the company's loan products and does not describe what data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or compromised.

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What the group claims

theLender was created to make a difference. As a group of proven industry leaders who recently founded one of the largest and fastest growing Wholesale mortgage companies in the United States, the company aims to change the stagnant landscape of Wholesale mortgage - one partnership, one loan, and one day at a time.

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About Termite

Termite is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in November 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of primarily Western nations including the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada suggests a non-Western operational base. With 39 documented victims across healthcare, telecommunications, business services, and technology sectors within just a few months of operation, Termite demonstrates an aggressive deployment strategy, though specific details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by established security research organizations. The group's relatively recent emergence means that notable high-profile campaigns and specific technical indicators have not yet been extensively analyzed or reported by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. Termite appears to remain active as of early 2025, though the limited public documentation suggests they may be a smaller-scale operation or have not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 54 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 17, 2024; most recent post September 22, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 22, 2026theLender listed by Termite on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Termite

Termite has been linked to 54 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Termite dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial Services sector, which has 1,195 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, theLender is reported in United States, a country with 3,167 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Termite means theLender 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 Termite'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.