Threat actor analysis
Emperador has disclosed 67 victims on its leak site, 0.3% of all ransomware listings tracked in this database. Its earliest disclosure here dates to August 2026.
The group has listed organisations in 18 countries, most often in Brazil (11 victims), followed by United States, Sweden, Turkey.
By industry, its listings concentrate in Manufacturing, Transportation, Government & Defense — sectors that hold sensitive data or cannot tolerate long outages, both of which raise the pressure to pay.
Like most current ransomware operations, Emperador is likely to use double extortion: data is stolen before files are encrypted, and organisations that refuse to pay are named on the leak site with the stolen data as leverage.