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CNPS Cameroun

Claimed by Spacebears · listed 2 years ago

22m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 12, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Spacebears
Status
Data leaked
Country
Cameroon
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Sep 12, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CNPS (Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance Sociale) is Cameroon's National Social Security Fund, a public institution established in 1967 and operating under the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. It administers social protection benefits including family allowances, pensions, occupational disease coverage, and health services across 38 welfare centers, one hospital, two medical-social centers, and one school, serving declared workers and their beneficiaries.

Industry
Government & Public Administration - Social Security
Founded
1967

Attack summary

Severity: high — Government social security institution with access to PII at scale (workers, beneficiaries, pension data), health records, and financial contribution histories. Compromise of such an institution constitutes significant risk to national social protection infrastructure and citizen data.

Spacebears claims to have compromised CNPS Cameroon and published data. The group has disclosed the attack but specific details on encryption status, exfiltration scope, or the nature of data accessed are not provided in the truncated leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Employee records
  • Employer contribution records
  • Beneficiary information
  • Social security claims data
  • Pension records
  • Health service records

What the group claims

The National Social Security Fund (acronym CNPS) is a Cameroonian public institution with legal personality and financial autonomy.It is placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and administered by a board of directors composed of representatives of workers, representatives of employers and representatives of public authorities.The CNPS was created on June 7, 1967. With decree no. 354/2018 of June 7, 2018, it became a Public Establishment of a special nature.It covers Family Benefits (PF), Old Age, Disability and Death Pensions (PVID), Professional Risks (RP).The CNPS: National Social Security Fund of Cameroon is a member of the Inter-African Conference on Social Security (CIPRES)The National Social Security Fund is responsible for ensuring, within the framework of the social protection policy of the Cameroonian government, the provision of benefits to insured workers and their beneficiaries. In this capacity, it manages different branches of benefits distributed as follows:Family benefits : family allowances, maternity leave  coverage , pregnancy-related medical expenses, etc.;Old-age, disability and death benefits: old-age pension or allowance, survivor's pension or allowance, funeral expenses, etc.;Work accident and occupational disease benefits : coverage of medical expenses (after emergency assistance), and prosthesis costs, etc.;Health and social action services: schools, hospitals, social centers.To accomplish its mission, the CNPS of Cameroon collects employee and employer contributions which constitute the bulk of its resources.The unemployed, employees in the informal sector and self-employment are therefore excluded. Only workers declared to the CNPS, who receive a salary in relation to their actual period of activity, can claim the benefits provided by this organization.The CNPS has:thirty-eight  social welfare centers,a hospital center,two  medical-social centers anda school.for its contributors, the CNPS has 38,620 acti

Sources

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

  • September 12, 2024CNPS Cameroun 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

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, CNPS Cameroun is reported in Cameroon.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Spacebears means CNPS Cameroun 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.