Was CNHW Landscape Design, Ltd hit by ransomware?

CNHW Landscape Design, Ltd was listed by the Spacebears ransomware operation (Taiwan), 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 CNHW Landscape Design, Ltd breach?

Spacebears published data attributed to CNHW Landscape Design, Ltd. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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CNHW Landscape Design, Ltd

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 2 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedNov 26, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Data leaked
Country: Taiwan
Listed on leak site: Nov 26, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CNHW (禾拓) is a Taiwan-based landscape design firm founded in 2001, specializing in environmental and landscape planning and design. The company has completed approximately 300 projects across Taiwan, focusing on balancing urban development with environmental sustainability.

Industry: Landscape Design & Environmental Planning
Founded: 2001

Attack summary

Severity: low — The leak post contains only a company description and historical background with no details of exfiltrated data, proof files, or operational impact. No ransom demanded, no data inventory disclosed, no proof count evident.

The Spacebears group claims to have breached CNHW Landscape Design. The leak post does not explicitly state whether data was exfiltrated, encrypted, or both, nor does it specify what data categories are at stake.

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What the group claims

CNHW(禾拓) was founded in 2001 and is widely regarded as one of Taiwan’s leading landscape design firms. The company specializes in environment & landscape planning and design. The name of the company indicates our work philosophy: working closely with different professions to expand the possibilities of creating better environments. (The literal meaning of “禾” is to amplify. In addition, the pronunciation is the same as the Chinese word for cooperation. “拓” means expansion.) Our company has been operating in Taiwan for over a decade and has worked on approximately 300 projects throughout the nation. Taiwan is densely populated, thus we try to find a balance between urban development and being environmentally friendly in our landscape strategies. At CNHW, our objective goes beyond simply creating beautiful places. We strive to continuously tap into local natural and cultural resources, and amplify the potential and uniqueness of different urban environments to re-present the space with a feeling that is both familiar and fresh. This is the design solution which we believe fits our beloved island nation the most. https://iflaapr.org/news/corporate-member-feature-cnhw-landscape-design-ltd-hetaguihuashejiguwenyouxiangongsi

Sources

Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/companies/40/cnhw-landscape-design-ltd

Source

Indexed 2 years 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 185 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 29, 2024; most recent post July 13, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: space bears.

Timeline of this disclosure

November 26, 2024CNHW Landscape Design, Ltd listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

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Sector and geography

Geographically, CNHW Landscape Design, Ltd is reported in Taiwan, a country with 71 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means CNHW Landscape Design, Ltd 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.
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.