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 7, 2026Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Pharmaceutical sector. Geographically, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 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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Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 13 days ago

13d

Age

since listed · listed for ransom

Status timeline

Listed
May 7, 2026

Current state: Listed for ransom

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Listed for ransom
Country: United States
Sector: Pharmaceutical
Listed on leak site: May 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, formerly known as Janssen Pharmaceuticals, is the pharmaceutical division of Johnson & Johnson, one of the world's largest healthcare corporations headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. The division focuses on the research, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines targeting complex diseases across immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and other therapeutic areas. It operates globally and is among the largest pharmaceutical entities in the world.

Industry: Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology (Innovative Medicine / Drug Development)
Employees: 10001+
Founded: 1886

Attack summary

Severity: high — The claimed data includes PII (personal customer IDs), financial records, audit files, and legal/court case documents from a major pharmaceutical company. While no proof files or confirmed exfiltration volume are provided, the nature of the data categories—particularly patient/client PII and regulated financial records at the scale of a global pharma division—warrants a high severity rating. A critical rating is not assigned due to the absence of confirmed exfiltration evidence or proof files.

The Spacebears ransomware group has listed Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine as a victim, claiming access to client data, financial data, personal customer IDs, audit records, and court case documentation. No ransom amount, data volume, or proof files are explicitly stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client data
Financial data
Personal customer IDs
Audit records
Court case documentation

What the group claims

Pharmaceutical division of Johnson & Johnson specializing in development and production of revolutionary medicines

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Data the group says was taken

Client Data
Financial Data
Personal Customer ID
Audit
Court Case

Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Sources

Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/

Source

Indexed 13 days ago

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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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