Was ROXU hit by ransomware?

ROXU was listed by the Spacebears ransomware operation (Spain), 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 ROXU breach?

Spacebears published data attributed to ROXU. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Roxu Group

listed as ROXU · Claimed by Spacebears · listed 9 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 9, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Data leaked
Country: Spain
Listed on leak site: Oct 9, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Roxu Group is a large Spanish industrial equipment and services company specialising in crane rental, heavy lifting, and transport solutions. The company operates a fleet of over 1,100 state-of-the-art machines including large-tonnage cranes (up to 1,200 tonnes capacity), more than 700 lifting platforms, and heavy transport equipment. It serves sectors including construction, ports, public works, wind energy, and industry, with 25,000 international customers and 24/7 service coverage.

Industry: Heavy Lifting, Crane Rental & Industrial Transport

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Data is listed as published, indicating confirmed exfiltration, but no specific data types, volume, or proof files are described in the post. The mismatch between the leak post text (J&J) and the actual victim reduces confidence in the specifics. No regulated or mass PII exposure is confirmed from available evidence.

The Spacebears ransomware group has listed Roxu Group under a 'data_published' status, indicating data has been exfiltrated and published. Notably, the leak post body describes Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine rather than Roxu Group, suggesting the post content may be misattributed or a copy-paste error, though the victim listing itself targets gruporoxu.com.

medium

What the group claims

Grúas Roxu, established in 1978, is the parent company of the Roxu Group and currently made up by the following companies: ROXU, PLAAS, IGR, IDEA and DURRUTI cranes. Since it was established in 1978, Grúas Roxu has been growing to become the leading company in Asturias and one of the top lifting machinery rental companies in Spain. Grúas Roxu is a service company, its activity consisting in the rental of lifting machinery with an operator, focussing on advisory and rental services regarding self-propelled mobile cranes, mobile personnel lifting platforms, self-loading crane trucks, specialised transport, studies and planning of civil and public work assemblies, industrial assemblies, etc. Our objective is very clear: to keep growing in a constant and sustainable manner while continuing to be a national reference in our sectorThanks to Gesimde Asociados S.L, Ausil, Esnova. The leak was made possible by these companiesDatabasePersonal information of employees and clientsFinancial documents https://gruporoxu.com/en/

The leak post

captured from the group's site

## Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (formerly known as Janssen Pharmaceuticals) is the pharmaceutical division of the American corporation Johnson & Johnson, specializing in the development and production of revolutionary medicines. The company focuses on creating treatments for the most complex diseases, transforming the future of healthcare.

Sources

Victim sitegruporoxu.com/en
Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/companies/94/roxu

Source

Indexed 9 months 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

October 9, 2025ROXU listed by Spacebearson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Spacebears

Spacebears has been linked to 185 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, ROXU is reported in Spain, a country with 351 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means ROXU 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.
Report the incident to your national CERT, INCIBE-CERT (Spain), as required for your jurisdiction.
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.