Lovely Developer
Lovely Developer is an alias
that 4 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 reports are dated 2025-05-17.
The reporting files it under the persona Lovely Developer, alongside 7 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 post states the operator opened a second GitHub account under the name Josue Valdivia, put a guestbook on it, and that his associates signed it. The second post shows a reverse image search establishing that the photograph used for the Josue identity was taken from a Pinterest account belonging to somebody else; that person is recorded in the held-back list rather than here. The third post shows the guestbook itself.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1923539373959897397 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Found on 13 September 2026 by probing every account handle this site already holds for this operator against GitLab, and read from the profile cited. An active GitLab account exists under lovelydev829, a login the index already carries for this persona on another platform. The profile gives a member-since date of 11 April 2022. It displays the name Lovely Developer, the same name the reporting already gives. 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. The profile's bio, location and links render only in a browser and were not read, so nothing is claimed about them either way.
gitlab.com/LovelyDev829 — Chollima Hunter -
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 lovelydev829, a login the index already carries for this persona on another platform. It gives a joined date of Dec 11, 2024. It displays "Josue Valdivia", a display name rather than a person's name. The profile links a GitHub account, LovelyDev829. It gives a location of GARDNERVILLE, NV, USA. 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/lovelydev829 — Chollima Hunter -
Found on 17 September 2026 by asking Hugging Face whether an account exists under lovelydev829, one of the logins the registry already holds for this operator, and read from the profile cited. The account states a display name of Jeremy Taylor. 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.
huggingface.co/lovelydev829 — Chollima Hunter
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Related indicators
Same persona record: Lovely Developer
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