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

May 13, 2026Gokals listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Consumer Electronics & Computers Retail sector. Geographically, Gokals is reported in Fiji.

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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Gokals

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 8 days ago

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

Listed
May 13, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: Fiji
Sector: Consumer Electronics & Computers Retail
Listed on leak site: May 13, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Gokals is described as the leading consumer electronics retailer and distributor in the South Pacific, dealing in small home appliances, audio-visual products, and white goods. The company is based in Fiji and serves the broader South Pacific region. No further details on scale or founding are publicly available from the provided sources.

Industry: Consumer Electronics & Computers Retail

Attack summary

Severity: medium — The group claims exfiltration of financial reports and databases which represent significant business data, but there is no confirmed scale, no evidence of regulated PII or medical/government data, no published proof files, and no ransom amount — keeping this at medium rather than high.

Spacebears claims to have exfiltrated financial reports, databases, and other valuable business documents (in formats including doc, docx, xls, pdf) from Gokals; no encryption claim or ransom amount is stated.

medium

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Financial reports
Databases
Word documents (.doc, .docx)
Spreadsheets (.xls)
PDF documents

What the group claims

GOKALS is the leading consumer electronics retailer and distributor in the South Pacific - be it small Home Appliances; Audio Visual products or White Goods.

The leak post

captured from the group's site

## Gokals Consumer Electronics & Computers Retail · Fiji
**GOKALS is the leading consumer electronics retailer and distributor in the South Pacific - be it small Home Appliances; Audio Visual products or White Goods.**
  * _Financial reports, Data Bases and other Valuable Information_
  * _doc, docx, xls, pdf... etc_

Data the group says was taken

Financial reports
Databases
Documents
Spreadsheets
PDFs

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/companies/19/gokals-consumer-electronics-computers-retail-fiji

Source

Indexed 8 days ago

This page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.

Disclosure context

About Spacebears

Timeline of this disclosure

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

Sector and geography

Status timeline

At a glance

About the victim

Attack summary

Data the group says was taken

What the group claims

The leak post

Data the group says was taken

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

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