Was Codival hit by ransomware?

Codival was listed by the Spacebears ransomware operation (Côte d’Ivoire), 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 Codival breach?

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

Ransomware victim disclosure

← All victims

Codival

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 2 years ago

23m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 21, 2024
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Spacebears
Status: Data leaked
Country: Côte d’Ivoire
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Aug 21, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CODIVAL is a cash-in-transit and security services company established in 1975 in Côte d'Ivoire, formerly known as Brink's West Africa. It is a subsidiary of SAGAM International and operates across West and Central Africa, providing cash transportation, processing, ATM management, and electronic security services.

Industry: Cash-in-Transit & Security Services
Founded: 1975

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Company handles sensitive financial/cash operations and likely possesses PII, banking details, and operational security information. However, the leak post contains only company background with no description of exfiltrated data, no proof files advertised, and no confirmation of data publication—only a listing announcement.

Spacebears claims to have compromised CODIVAL but provides no specifics about the nature of the attack (encryption, exfiltration, or both) or what data was accessed.

medium

What the group claims

CODIVAL was created in 1975, on the initiative of local banks that wanted to secure the transportation of cash within their growing networks.Formerly known as BRINK'S WEST AFRICA, CODIVAL is a subsidiary of the SAGAM International group, which is the leader for all activities related to the securing of cash: cash-in-transit, cash processing, ATM management, electronic security and fire safety.This synergy of skills enables CODIVAL to benefit from the expertise, technical know-how, logistics and professionalism of the group which is represented in Senegal, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Cameroon, and soon to be represented in Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, Morocco and Central Africa.In Côte d'Ivoire, CODIVAL is the undisputed leader in the field of cash-in-transit, cash processing and ATM Management https://codival.ci/en/

Sources

Victim sitecodival.ci
Leak posthttp://5butbkrljkaorg5maepuca25oma7eiwo6a2rlhvkblb4v6mf3ki2ovid.onion/companies/35/codival

Source

Indexed 2 years 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.

Is this your supplier? Your competitor? You?

Pro plans monitor your domain, corporate emails, and crypto wallets across every new ransomware leak-site post, breach dump and Telegram callout — alerts within 5 minutes.

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

August 21, 2024Codival 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:

See the full Spacebears dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Codival is reported in Côte d’Ivoire.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means Codival 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.