Status

Active

Distinct actor

MODERATE 68%

Named actor

INSUFFICIENT

First observed

28 Feb 2026

Last updated

1 Mar 2026

Motivation

Cybercrime, assessed as access brokering or post-access monetisation (HIGH)

Note on UTA identifiers: "UTA" stands for Unattributed Threat Actor. UTA-2026-001 is a tracking label The Hunters Ledger assigns to an actor I have observed but cannot yet link to a publicly named threat group. Other vendors and feeds will not use this label; it is specific to this publication. If later evidence ties the activity to a named actor, I will retire the label and update the report.

Summary

An operator whose complete Sliver build workspace was exposed on bulletproof hosting hours after an automated pipeline finished. The build fingerprint, a fraudulent code-signing certificate impersonating VMware, and a dual-beacon delivery design are the characteristics the designation rests on. No infrastructure overlap with any named campaign was found.

The confidence levels above are the published report's figures. Every claim on this page is a summary of the linked reports, which remain the record.

Targeting

Targeting is given as region and sector, drawn from the reports. Victim names are deliberately not published here or in the reports.

Reports

Actor identifiers

Artifacts this operator chose or created: handles, channels, operator brands and domains, wallets and the like. Each is printed in a report linked above; the full indicator set, with its caveats, is in each report's IOC feed.

Infrastructure and tooling

Primary host

45.94.31.220 (the operator-controlled host the assigning report is named for; the full indicator set, with its caveats, is in each report's IOC feed)

Tooling

SliverScareCrowDonutSysWhispers3

MITRE ATT&CK

26 techniques across 7 tactics, read from the mapping tables of the reports about this actor. Each technique links to where it is mapped.

Related designations

• UTA-2026-007: Shares a bulletproof hosting provider at the C2 layer only; assessed LOW and not a link.

Actor profiles and the reports behind them are © Joseph, The Hunter's Ledger, licensed CC BY 4.0: free to use, including commercially, with attribution. All tracked actors.