Was Grupolider | Grupo Actual hit by ransomware?

Grupolider | Grupo Actual was listed by the Deadlock ransomware operation (Angola), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Deadlock ransomware group?

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What data was leaked in the Grupolider | Grupo Actual breach?

Deadlock published data attributed to Grupolider | Grupo Actual. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Grupolider (Grupo Actual)

listed as Grupolider | Grupo Actual · Claimed by Deadlock · listed 5 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJul 10, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Deadlock
Status: Data leaked
Country: Angola
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Jul 10, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Grupolider is an Angolan conglomerate headquartered in Luanda that has operated since 1999, initially as a freight forwarding company and later diversifying into agriculture, construction, and furniture. Grupo Actual is its Portuguese human resources and recruitment subsidiary, providing temporary staffing, permanent recruitment, and selection services; rebranded from 'Leader' in late 2025.

Industry: Business Services; Human Resources & Recruitment; Diversified Conglomerate (Agriculture, Construction, Furniture)
Address: Catete, Luanda, Angola
Founded: 1999

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed exfiltration with published data availability announced, but no proof files or screenshots are advertised in the post, and the specific data types at risk are not enumerated. The victim operates in business services and HR, which may include employee/applicant PII, but scale and sensitivity remain unclear.

Deadlock claims to have exfiltrated data from Grupolider and Grupo Actual. The group announced that leaked files would be available for download on May 10, 2026, but no specific data categories or operational disruption details are disclosed in the post.

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What the group claims

The leaked files will be available for download on May 10, 2026. Grupolider is a prominent Angolan conglomerate that has been operating in the national market since 1999. Headquartered in Catete, Luanda, the group initially started as a freight forwarding company and has since diversified into a wide range of sectors including agriculture, construction, and furniture. Grupo Actual is a human resources and recruitment agency in Portugal that provides temporary work solutions, permanent recruitment, and selection services.Following a rebranding in late 2025, the company formerly known as Leader now operates under the Actual brand.

Sources

Victim sitegrupolider-ao.com

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Deadlock

Deadlock is a ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, having claimed responsibility for attacks against at least 10 known victims across a geographically diverse target set. Given the recency of their emergence and limited public documentation by major threat intelligence organizations such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant at this time, a comprehensive technical profile cannot be fully established. Based on available victimology data, the group has demonstrated a targeting pattern spanning Singapore, China, Sweden, Spain, and Nigeria, suggesting an opportunistic or globally distributed operational scope rather than a regionally focused campaign. Targeted sectors include manufacturing, business services, telecommunications, and financial services, indicating a preference for industries with high operational dependencies and potential for significant disruption, which is consistent with financially motivated ransomware actors seeking maximum leverage for ransom payment. No confirmed attribution regarding country of origin, RaaS affiliation, or specific tooling has been publicly documented by authoritative sources as of this profile's preparation. Due to the group's nascent operational timeline and the limited volume of publicly verified intelligence, analysts should treat this profile as preliminary and subject to significant revision as additional technical indicators, victim disclosures, and research reporting become available. Continued monitoring is advised given the cross-sector and cross-regional targeting behavior observed in this early operational phase. The group has been linked to 76 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 15, 2026; most recent post July 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

July 10, 2026Grupolider | Grupo Actual listed by Deadlockon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Deadlock

Deadlock has been linked to 76 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Grupolider | Grupo Actual is reported in Angola, a country with 15 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Deadlock means Grupolider | Grupo Actual 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on Deadlock'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.