Threat actor
NeoBit
Last fetched
NeoBit is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
NeoBit, a Russian company headquartered in St. Petersburg, is involved in surveillance and cyber operations on behalf of the Russian government. The company is behind the development of Vepr, a system designed to monitor and predict "information tension points" on the internet. This project, commissioned by Roskomnadzor (Russia's internet censorship agency), aims to analyze online content, including tone, aggression, and repost metrics, to identify perceived threats such as criticism of authorities, "LGBT propaganda," and other topics deemed undesirable by the state. Vepr is part of a broader initiative, the Clean Internet project, which seeks to surveil 100% of Russia's online activity using advanced neural networks and bot farms capable of infiltrating closed social media groups. NeoBit has reportedly collaborated with Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, by supplying expertise in artificial intelligence fields such as machine learning, behavioral analysis, and anomaly detection. Huawei has also recruited researchers from NeoBit and other Russian firms. The company was sanctioned by the United States in 2021 for its suspected ties to Russia's three main intelligence services: the FSB, SVR, and GRU. NeoBit is also a contractor for Russia's Ministry of Defense and the Federal Protective Service (FSO).
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for NeoBit in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to NeoBit today — this states the absence of a published link, not that NeoBit has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.intelligenceonline.com/corporate-intelligence/2021/06/18/huawei-hired-top-researchers-from-russia-s-us-sanctioned-neobit,109674074-eve
- https://en.zona.media/article/2023/03/08/neurorkn-trl
- https://therecord.media/white-house-formally-blames-russian-intelligence-service-svr-for-solarwinds-hack
- https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0127
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Related pages
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Queries
Resolves the slug to this actor, merging every duplicate node sharing the same name.
MATCH (a:ACTOR)
WHERE a.name =~ $pattern OR any(x IN a.aliases WHERE x =~ $pattern)
RETURN a.id AS id, a.name AS name, a.aliases AS aliases, a.description AS description,
a.references AS references, a.campaigns AS campaigns
LIMIT 25Run yourself →Techniques this actor uses, grouped by the tactic each one serves.
MATCH (a:ACTOR {name: $name})-[:USES_TECHNIQUE]->(t:ATTACK_PATTERN)
OPTIONAL MATCH (t)-[:USES_TACTIC]->(tac:ATTACK_PATTERN)
RETURN t.id AS techniqueId, t.name AS techniqueName, tac.id AS tacticId, tac.name AS tacticName
LIMIT 1000Run yourself →Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.
MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25Run yourself →Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.