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Pantanal Agricola

bd_15fa1b216a158bec · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 14, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
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Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Thegentlemen 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: Agriculture and Food ProductionDiscovered: 2026-10-16

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

pantanalagricola.com.br Pantanal Agrícola S.A. is a Brazilian agri-input distributor (crop protection, fertilizers, seeds) founded in 2001 in São Gabriel do Oeste, Mato Grosso do Sul — 19 legal units, 15-16 stores across MS/MT/GO, ~300 employees, serving 64+ municipalities and 5 million hectares of farmland. Partners include BASF, Corteva, FMC, Sumitomo, ICL, and Brevant; the business model centers on barter (inputs repaid with grain) plus agronomic advisory. The headline event: Bunge signed an MOU in Nov 2021 to acquire a minority stake, adding grain-storage and trading muscle. It finances heavily through agri-receivables certificates (8 CRA/CDCA deals since 2019, ~R$217M+, incl. R$145M in 2025 via Ecoagro and a tokenized CDCA with Banco BV). Corporate governance is professionalizing — SA fechada since 2019, board expanded with independents in 2025-26, new CFO Flávio Sales (2025); founder-CEO Jonis Assmann still leads, with second generation (Bruno Franciosi) in management.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Oct 14, 2026

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

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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

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

About this groupFirst seen 2023-02-28

thegentlemen

According to ransomware.live, The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.

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