Was Cattani hit by ransomware?

Cattani was listed by the Spacebears ransomware operation (Italy), 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 Spacebears ransomware group?

Spacebears is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Cattani breach?

Spacebears published data attributed to Cattani (~1.6 TB). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Cattani S.p.A.

listed as Cattani · Claimed by Spacebears · listed 5 days ago

1.6 TB

Data size

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 10, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Data leaked
Country: Italy
Listed on leak site: Jun 10, 2026
Data size: 1.6 TB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cattani S.p.A., established in 1967 in Italy, is a leader in dental equipment and oil-less compressor manufacturing, exporting globally. The group operates divisions including Esam (industrial field, founded 1984) and Magnolia (chemical disinfectant products for surgical instruments, launched 2003), and has supplied components to aerospace and rail projects including NASA and Eurostar.

Industry: Dental Equipment & Industrial Compressors Manufacturing
Founded: 1967

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of regulated personal data (PII for employees and clients) and financial documents from a manufacturing company; scale and sensitivity of employee/client data justifies high severity despite no ransom demand or encryption stated.

The spacebears group claims to have exfiltrated personal information of employees and clients, financial documents, and approximately 200,000+ files from Cattani S.p.A. The group has published data without stating encryption or demanding ransom.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

employee personal information
client personal information
financial documents
business files (200,000+)

What the group claims

Established in 1967, Cattani S.p.A. is now a leader in the dental field, exporting its range of products to all continents. After becoming a publicly limited company in 1981, Cattani S.p.A. founded the division Esam in 1984, extending the group’s business activities into the industrial field. In 2003 Cattani S.p.A. launched Magnolia, a chemical company specialising in the production of detergent disinfectant products for surgery instruments and, in particular, dental aspiration systems.The Cattani group designed and manufactured one of the scientific components in the famous NASA space shuttle. Due to our reputation for reliability, Ferrari Engineering (supplier of the European Space Agency) chose us as one of its prestigious suppliers for the production of a 180 gram compressor, which reached a pressure of 38 bar. The group has also taken part in the Eurostar project, the pride of the Italian railway system, producing the train’s pressurization system.-Personal information of employees and clients -Financial documents- 200 000 + other files https://www.***.it/en/

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Established in 1967, Cattani S.p.A. is now a leader in the dental field, exporting its range of products to all continents. After becoming a publicly limited company in 1981, Cattani S.p.A. founded the division Esam in 1984, extending the group’s business activities into the industrial field. In 2003 Cattani S.p.A. launched Magnolia, a chemical company specialising in the production of detergent disinfectant products for surgery instruments and, in particular, dental aspiration systems.
The Cattani group designed and manufactured one of the scientific components in the famous NASA space shuttle. Due to our reputation for reliability, Ferrari Engineering (supplier of the European Space Agency) chose us as one of its prestigious suppliers for the production of a 180 gram compressor, which reached a pressure of 38 bar. The group has also taken part in the Eurostar project, the pride of the Italian railway system, producing the train’s pressurization system.
-Personal information of employees and clients -Financial documents
- 200 000 + other files

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Victim sitewww.cattani.it/en
Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/companies/50/cattani

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About Spacebears

Spacebears is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in April 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations and demonstrating a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation from established threat intelligence sources, though their targeting pattern suggests a professional operation focused on maximizing financial returns rather than geopolitical objectives. With 117 known victims since their emergence, Spacebears has shown particular focus on organizations in the United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Canada, with their attacks primarily affecting technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and business services sectors, indicating they likely employ opportunistic targeting rather than sector-specific specialization. Their attack methodology, initial access vectors, and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented in public reporting from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies, limiting detailed analysis of their operational procedures and tools. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public intelligence reporting, notable high-profile campaigns and specific victim details remain largely undocumented in established threat intelligence channels. The group's current operational status appears active given their recent emergence timeline, though comprehensive analysis is constrained by the lack of detailed public reporting from authoritative cybersecurity sources. The group has been linked to 176 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post June 11, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 10, 2026Cattani listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Data size: 1.6 TB

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

Spacebears has been linked to 176 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Spacebears dossier →

Sector and geography

Geographically, Cattani is reported in Italy, a country with 202 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means Cattani 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CSIRT Italia (Italy), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Spacebears'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.