TheNeoBoss
Attribution profile
- Type
- Criminal
- Location
- Russia
- Known incidents
- 2 incidents
- Sources
- 1 source
- First seen
- 2016-03-31
- Last seen
- 2016-03-31
- Updated
- 2026-10-04 00:04
- Aliases
- 1 alias
STIX characteristics
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Profile narrative
TheNeoBoss is a threat actor associated with Russia who in March 2016 breached the adult entertainment network Team Skeet and its parent company Paper Street Media, obtaining administrative access, defacing the site, and stealing a database with email addresses, plaintext passwords, names, physical addresses and IP addresses for over 237,000 accounts. The actor offered the data for sale on the Dream Market dark web marketplace for about 0.962 bitcoin (~$400) and attempted to extort the companies, while also claiming to have previously warned them about security weaknesses. Reported tactics include website defacement, intrusion into administrative panels, credential exfiltration, and extortion via underground markets; no malware families or specific initial access vectors are described in the sources. Public attribution does not tie the actor to any state sponsor or criminal consortium, and the only location indicator available is the alleged Russian base.
Incidents
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2 incidentsSources
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