radar
Intelligence Profile
Radar (also known as Dispossessor), active since August 2023 and led by an actor called "Brain," was a RaaS group targeting small-to-mid-sized businesses across healthcare, education, finance, and transportation in over 14 countries; it was dismantled by an FBI-led international operation in August 2024 that seized 24 servers and 9 criminal domains.
Threat Analysis
radar is a ransomware operation that deploys encryption-based extortion against organizations globally. This group maintains a data leak site (DLS) to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.
Financially motivated threat actors like radar prioritize monetary gain through methods such as ransomware deployment, banking trojans, cryptocurrency theft, BEC scams, or credential harvesting for resale on underground markets.