Incident analysis
Paessolucoes was listed by Panzer ransomware, a group with 53 victims recorded in this database. The listing appeared on the group's leak site on October 2, 2026.
Paessolucoes is based in Brazil and operates in the Other sector. Brazil ranks #7 worldwide for ransomware disclosures, with 514 victims in this database.
Sector context. Organisations in this sector hold valuable data and operational systems that ransomware groups seek to exploit for financial gain through encryption and data exfiltration.
Panzer typically follows a double extortion model: data is exfiltrated from the victim's systems before files are encrypted, so the victim faces two demands at once — pay to restore access, and pay to keep stolen data unpublished. The leak site, where this listing appeared, is the lever for the second demand.