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, 2026Arista listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Furniture sector.

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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Arista

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
Sector: Furniture
Listed on leak site: May 7, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Arista is a company specialising in consulting, supply, and installation of furniture, seating, finishes, and architectural elements. Based on the sector tag and leak post description, the company operates in the commercial interior design and fit-out space. No further verifiable details about its location, scale, or founding date are available from the provided sources.

Industry: Furniture & Interior Design Consulting

Attack summary

Severity: low — The post is a listing/announcement only with no enumerated data types, no proof files, and no stated ransom or data size specific to Arista. The disclosure status is 'listed' with no confirmed exfiltration details.

The Spacebears ransomware group claims to have listed Arista as a victim on their leak site, implying exfiltration or access to company data; however, no specific data categories, proof files, or data volume are enumerated for Arista specifically in the post.

low

What the group claims

Consulting, supply and installation of furniture, seating, finishes and architectural elements

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.
Our company, Erla Technologies SAS, has specialised for more than 30 years in designing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining a huge range of innovative equipment with Guaranteed French Produced certification and intended for storage, distribution and management of petroleum products, biofuel, Adblue and industrial and chemical fluids.Aware of environmental issues, new energies are at the heart of the innovations and solutions brought by Erla Technologies.
-One of the clients is the French army, documentation.-Personal information of employees and clients-Financial documents-Other files
Operation of a network of karaoke establishments, providing leisure and entertainment services for individual and corporate clients. 
Development and management of a chain of food and beverage establishments, primarily in the Japanese izakaya style, as well as other concepts w…

Screenshot of the leak post

Sources

Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/

Source

Indexed 13 days ago

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