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Grupolider

bd_97a3ebfe4e89a3e3 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 21, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Grupolider →2 incidents on file

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: OtherDiscovered: 2026-09-21

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

grupolider-ao.com zoominfo.com/c/grupolider/429885445 Grupolider is an Angolan diversified holding company founded in 1999, headquartered in Catete (Luanda province). The group operates in agriculture, logistics, freight forwarding, construction, and furniture manufacturing, with its flagship business being Novagrolider — the largest agricultural producer in Angola. Novagrolider farms around 20,000 hectares of land and produces roughly 150,000 tons of food per year (bananas, vegetables, fruit, and dairy), while the group employs over 3,200 direct staff. The company exports to Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Russia, South Africa, and Morocco, and was the first farm in Africa to receive GlobalGAP certification. Estimated annual revenue is around USD 13–15 million (Novagrolider alone), though reliable consolidated figures for the private group are not publicly disclosed. Since 2021, after the death of co-founder João Macedo, the group has been led by his brother and partner José Macedo.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Sep 21, 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

  • 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 2023-02-28

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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