Certainly a novel approach by a ransomware gang.<\/p>\n
By\u00a0Graham Cluley<\/span><\/a> – Space Bear is a relatively new ransomware group that first appeared on the radar in April 2024. The gang, which is aligned to the Phobos ransomware-as-a-service group, steals sensitive data from organisations, encrypts victims’ computer systems, and demands that a ransom be paid for a decryption key or the data will be published on the dark web.<\/p>\n Space Bears has gained a certain amount of notoriety by the way in which it presents itself. Unlike other ransomware gangs, Space Bears presents a very “corporate” image of itself. For instance, on its leak website the Space Bears group uses stock images that you would more naturally associate with a corporation than a hacking gang.<\/p>\n This distinctive approach exhibits itself in webpages that ask, “Do you trust your data to this company?” in a style that would feel more normal on a company that was trying to sell you ransomware protection services than extort a ransom after stealing your data.\u00a0\u00a0Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On another page, alongside a friendly corporate stock image, Space Bears offers “guarantees” of what it will do if your company pays its ransom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[636],"tags":[637],"class_list":["post-77610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ransomware","tag-ransomware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t