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Polikem

Claimed by Emperador · listed 4 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 29, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Emperador
Status
Data leaked
Country
Turkey
Sector
Manufacturing
Listed on leak site
Sep 29, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Polikem is a Colombian manufacturer of chemical products for industrial and automotive applications. The company develops and markets chemical solutions tailored to various industries and consumer needs.

Industry
Chemical Manufacturing

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed exfiltration of significant business data (financial and inventory records) from a manufacturing company, but no indication of PII at scale or operational disruption.

The Emperor group claims to have exfiltrated sensitive internal data from Polikem, including financial records, inventory data, and other confidential business information.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • financial records
  • inventory data
  • internal business documents

What the group claims

Polikem is a Colombian company dedicated to the development, manufacture, and marketing of chemical products for industrial and automotive applications. With decades of experience, the company provides practical and reliable solutions tailored to the needs of various industries and consumers. This leak includes sensitive information, such as the company’s financial status, inventory records, and other internal data. [Sector: Manufacturing]

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 hours 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 56 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on August 12, 2026; most recent post September 29, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • September 29, 2026Polikem listed by emperador on the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by emperador

emperador has been linked to 56 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 Manufacturing sector, which has 3,696 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Polikem is reported in Turkey, a country with 31 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by emperador means Polikem 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 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.