Japanese Aluminum Manufacturer Operations Impacted by Cyberattack
Manufacturer Mino Kogyo Co., Ltd. confirmed a cyberattack and its details on their website. The company detected the attack and initiated a network shutdown on October 4, 2025. Production activities were partially affected but largely continued through individual adjustments. Financial settlement systems were restored quickly. The company later confirmed 300 GB of communications data had been stolen.
SafePay claimed responsibility for the attack. The hackers got access through a regular employee's VPN account using a valid ID and password (not a VPN vulnerability exploit). This led to internal exploration, system administrator privilege escalation (Oct 3), system destruction, and file encryption. Data leak was confirmed on October 28, 2025.