Atos denies Space Bears' ransomware claims – with a 'but'

French IT firm Atos has been named on a Space Bears ransomware leak site and faced a ransom deadline, but Atos denies any breach of its own infrastructure, saying a third-party’s systems were compromised and accessed files contained references to the Atos name; the situation mirrors prior ransomware-related claims against Atos and raises supply-chain and customer-data exposure concerns despite limited public evidence of direct compromise.