Kenichi Yamamoto
Kenichi Yamamoto is an alias
that 3 published sources report
in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting
attributes to North Korea (DPRK).
It is cited here from Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) and Chollima Hunter.
The earliest of those reports is dated 2025-04-19 and the most recent 2026-09-20.
The reporting files it under the persona Kenichi Yamamoto, alongside 4 other identifiers attributed to the same identity. The persona page shows them together with any accounts, photographs and CV recorded under that name. A persona name is the one an account presented under, and may belong to an uninvolved person whose identity was taken.
alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED
Sources
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The GitHub account is read by hand from the second attached screenshot, a profile page headed elbaable with 24 repositories and 94 followers. The post's own text states both names and adds that the operator likes the number 1026 on email accounts; no address is shown, so none is recorded here. This is one of the names docs/x-source-backlog.md had been carrying as unresolved on the belief that it existed only inside an image. It is in the post's text, in a window the sweep never reached.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1913723984304324686 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Found on 13 September 2026 by probing every account handle this site already holds for this operator against dev.to, and read from the profile's own public API. An account exists under elbaable, a login the index already carries for this persona on another platform. It gives a joined date of Nov 15, 2021. It displays the name Trayvon Hughes, which no source this site holds had attached to this operator before. The profile links a GitHub account, elbaable. It gives a location of CA, US. The handle is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and a display name on a profile is a name the account presents, not an identification.
dev.to/elbaable — Chollima Hunter -
Read on 20 September 2026 by walking the commit history of every repository on the GitHub account github.com/elbaable, already held under this persona, and tallying the author line on every commit. A commit's author line is what the holder configured their git client with rather than anything the profile page chooses to display, so it recovers addresses the account never states. The address recorded here was not already in this index: trahughes1026@gmail.com authored 8 commits across 2 of its repositories, commits as "elbaable". Each is admitted because it commits under a name the account itself uses, which is the test that separates the holder's own address from the original author of a repository copied in. Addresses belonging to unrelated developers whose work appears in these repositories are deliberately not recorded, and an address is evidence that whoever held it wrote those commits rather than proof of who holds the account.
github.com/elbaable — Chollima Hunter
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