Disclosure context

About safepay

The Safepay ransomware group is a newly emerged threat actor first observed in November 2024, demonstrating rapid operational scale with 444 documented victims in a short timeframe, indicating financially motivated cybercriminal activity. Due to the group's recent emergence, publicly documented information about their country of origin, affiliations, and operational model remains limited among established threat intelligence sources. Given the recency of their appearance and lack of detailed technical analysis from major security firms, their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, and encryption techniques have not been comprehensively documented in public threat intelligence reporting. The group has demonstrated a broad targeting approach across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, education, and healthcare, with primary focus on victims in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, though no specific high-profile campaigns or notable incidents have been publicly attributed to them by major security vendors or law enforcement agencies. As of the latest available intelligence, Safepay appears to remain active, though comprehensive threat profiling is limited due to the group's recent emergence and the current lack of detailed technical analysis from established cybersecurity research organizations. The group has been linked to 487 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 19, 2024; most recent post May 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 4, 2026hokuyo2006.co.jp listed by safepayon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 2,458 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, hokuyo2006.co.jp is reported in JP, a country with 88 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.

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hokuyo2006.co.jp

Claimed by safepay · listed 16 days ago

16d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 4, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: safepay
Status: Data leaked
Country: JP
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: May 4, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

株式会社ホクヨー (HOKUYO CO., LTD.) is a Japanese company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, engaged in the distribution and sale of paper-based raw materials, including FSC-certified base paper, contributing to sustainable forest resource management. The company operates as part of a broader industrial group connected to packaging, logistics, and housing-related businesses. Its corporate site was established in 2015 and the company domain suggests founding around 2006.

Industry: Paper & Packaging Materials Distribution
Address: 〒101-0047 東京都千代田区内神田2-15-11 翔和神田ビル4階, Tokyo, Japan
Founded: 2006

Attack summary

Severity: high — Data has been confirmed published by the threat actor, and the victim company itself acknowledges a ransomware-caused system outage on its public website, indicating both operational disruption and confirmed exfiltration. No specific regulated PII or medical/government data is evidenced, keeping this below critical.

The SafePay ransomware group claims responsibility for an attack on HOKUYO CO., LTD.; the company's own website confirms a ransomware infection causing a system outage (notice dated 2026-05-11). The disclosure status is 'data_published', indicating the group has published exfiltrated data, though the specific data volume was not stated in the leak post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Corporate business data
Packaging and logistics operational records
Potentially supplier/partner information

What the group claims

Is a Japanese company that operates as part of a larger industrial group connected to packaging, logistics, and housing-related businesses. …

The leak post

captured from the group's site

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Sources

Victim sitehokuyo2006.co.jp
Leak posthttp://safepaypfxntwixwjrlcscft433ggemlhgkkdupi2ynhtcmvdgubmoyd.onion/blog/post/hokuyo2006cojp/

Source

Indexed 16 days ago

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