Was Granja Avicola La Ponderosa hit by ransomware?

Granja Avicola La Ponderosa was listed by the emperador ransomware operation (Venezuela) as a victim being extorted; data had not been published at the time of listing. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the emperador ransomware group?

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Granja Avícola La Ponderosa

listed as Granja Avicola La Ponderosa · Claimed by Emperador · listed 55 minutes ago

41 GB

Data size

several thousand documents records

Today

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

ListedOct 2, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Emperador
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: Venezuela
Sector: Agriculture/Food Production
Listed on leak site: Oct 2, 2026
Data size: 41 GB
Records: several thousand documents

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Granja Avícola La Ponderosa is a Venezuelan agricultural enterprise specializing in the purchase, sale, import, export, breeding, processing, and marketing of poultry and domestic animals. The company maintains personnel and customer records across its operations.

Industry: Poultry & Livestock Breeding

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 41 GB including personnel and customer data at scale; sensitive business records exposed.

The grupo emperador claims to have exfiltrated 41 GB of data including several thousand documents containing personnel and customer information from the company's systems.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Personnel records
Customer data
Business documents

What the group claims

Corporate purpose is mainly the purchase, sale, import, export, breeding, processing and marketing of all types of poultry and/or domestic animals in general.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

[ GRANJA AVICOLA LA PONDEROSA Venezuela The corporate purpose is mainly the purchase, sale, import, export, breeding, processing and marketing of all types of poultry and/or domestic animals in general. The archives contain several thousand documents with personnel and customer data. ](http://emprdr4p7iwlhpky33tswt3k2qdeljyjcdpoysabudmmrz4z32laexad.onion/post/la-ponderosa/) [ I have yet to hear a response from SitePro Rentals regarding the data breach. I have heard rumors that a law firm is investigating the incident(https://classlawdc.com/2026/09/28/sitepro-rentals-data-breach-investigation/). I am giving you 72 hours to contact me, otherwise I will leak the active employee details. The information includes: IsTotalItem, Department_ShortName, Employee_FirstName, Employee_LastName, EmployeeEmploymentStatus_EmployeeNumber, Employee_HireDate, EmploymentStatus_ShortName, OrgUnit_ShortName, DeptJob_ShortName, EmployeeManager_ManagerDisplayName, PayType_ShortName, PayClass_ShortName, Employee_SocialSecurityNumber, Department_ShortName2, Employee_Gender, Employee_MiddleName, PersonAddress_Address1, PersonAddress_Address2, PersonAddress_City, PersonAddress_PostalCode, PersonAddress_StateC…

Data the group says was taken

personnel data
customer data

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Granja Avicola La Ponderosa

Sources

Source

Indexed 55 minutes ago

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Disclosure context

About emperador

Emperador is a ransomware group first observed in August 2026 with an apparent financial motivation, though its limited operational history makes comprehensive attribution difficult at this time. Based on available data, the group has recorded at least one confirmed victim, with targeting concentrated in the Philippines and a demonstrated focus on the Government and Defense sector, suggesting either opportunistic targeting or a deliberate interest in sensitive public-sector data. Specific details regarding initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, and tooling have not been publicly documented by CISA, the FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable threat intelligence sources as of this profile's compilation, and no affiliation with known ransomware-as-a-service ecosystems or established threat actor clusters has been formally established. No notable high-profile campaigns, record ransom demands, or law enforcement actions have been publicly attributed to this group, which is consistent with its nascent operational timeline and minimal victim count. Given its very recent emergence and limited observed activity, Emperador should be considered an emerging and uncharacterized threat requiring continued monitoring, particularly by organizations operating within Philippine government and defense environments. The group has been linked to 58 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 12, 2026; most recent post October 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 2, 2026Granja Avicola La Ponderosa listed by emperador on the group's public leak site

Data size: 41 GB
Records: several thousand documents

Other recent disclosures by emperador

emperador has been linked to 58 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full emperador dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Agriculture/Food Production sector. Geographically, Granja Avicola La Ponderosa is reported in Venezuela, a country with 4 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by emperador means Granja Avicola La Ponderosa appeared on a ransomware extortion site and is being pressured to pay before any publication. 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 emperador'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.