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Valufinder Group

bd_d6bca4d2532d951f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Sep 22, 2025

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Valufinder Group

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Beast on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Financial ServicesClaimed data size: ?Discovered: 2025-09-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak 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

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 22, 2025

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2023-12-19

beast

According to ransomware.live, Beast is a Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) product which provides functionality such as SMB scanning, file encryption, service and process starting and stopping, and geographic identification to avoid encryption in CIS countries.

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