Status

Active

Distinct actor

MODERATE 75%

Named actor

INSUFFICIENT

First observed

15 May 2026

Last updated

16 May 2026

Operator language

Turkish-speaking

Motivation

Financial, Turkish consumer fraud

Note on UTA identifiers: "UTA" stands for Unattributed Threat Actor. UTA-2026-008 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

A phishing panel and seven brand-impersonation kits recovered in full source from a multi-tenant staging host. A developer signature hard-coded into function names and a single shared database across the panel and every kit rule out a leaked template and point to one developer-operator. First public documentation of the panel.

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

79.137.192.3 (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

BellaMain PhaaS panel

MITRE ATT&CK

57 techniques across 12 tactics, read from the mapping tables of the reports about this actor. Each technique links to where it is mapped.

Related designations

• UTA-2026-009: Co-tenant on the same staging host; linkage assessed LOW and actively rebutted on seven dimensions.
• UTA-2026-010: Co-tenant on the same staging host; no operator-level overlap.

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.