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 147 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post May 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 14, 2026Ultimate Metals listed by spacebearson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ultimate Metals is reported in United Kingdom, a country with 902 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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Ultimate Metals

Claimed by spacebears · listed 1 month ago

36d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 14, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: spacebears
Status: Data leaked
Country: United Kingdom
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Apr 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Ultimate Metals is an international supplier of speciality materials based in Hitchin, UK, serving industries including aerospace and defence, engineering, and electronics. The company supplies high-density tungsten alloys and other specialty metals such as hafnium, niobium, tantalum, molybdenum, rhenium, gallium, indium, germanium, and vanadium to clients in the USA, India, and across Europe. Its team comprises technical sales staff, metallurgists, and engineers.

Industry: Speciality Metals & Alloys Supply
Address: Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of data including personal information (PII) of employees and clients, as well as financial documents, from a company operating in the aerospace and defence supply chain — a sensitive sector. Data has been published, elevating severity beyond medium.

The SpaceBears ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated data from Ultimate Metals including personal information of employees and clients, financial documents, and other files; the data is described as published.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Personal information of employees
Personal information of clients
Financial documents
Other files

What the group claims

https://www.tungsten-alloys.co.uk/ Ultimate Metals is an international supplier of speciality materials to a variety of industries, which include aerospace and defence, engineering and electronic.We strive to respond to any request within 24 hours, priding ourselves on the professionalism of our team, which consists of technical sales people, metallurgists and engineers with years of experience.Personal information of employees and сlientsFinancial documentsOther files https://www.ultimatemetals.com/

The leak post

captured from the group's site

Do you trust your data to this company? 
This page contains a list of companies whose clients and business partners entrusted them with their confidential data, but these companies leaked data. The data may contain confidential information such as login credentials, intellectual property, personal and financial data, etc.
SmilePoint Dental Group is a fast-growing dental organization operating 26–28 offices across Texas and New Mexico.The group runs multiple family dental clinics and orthodontics practices in smaller communities under various brands such as Crosby Family Dental, Liberty Family Dental, Jasper Family Dental, SmilePoint Dental, and others.They offer comprehensive services including general dentistry, orthodontics, cosmetic care, implants, and preventive treatments with modern equipment.
- Patient database with social security numbers and medical histories- Access to the local EagleSoft database- Financial reports
The data provided will allow you to deploy the company's database on any PC with full access to SmilePoint's EagleSoft functionality.
Our company, Erla Technologies SAS, has specialised for more than 30 years in designing, manufacturing, installing and maintai…

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Source

Indexed 1 month ago

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