Kauai Martins Santana
Kauai Martins Santana is an alias
that one published source reports
in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting
attributes to North Korea (DPRK).
It is cited here from DPRK_Dev_Star (@DPRK_Dev_Star).
The report is dated 2025-11-01.
The reporting files it under the persona Kauai Santana, alongside 5 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 RESEARCHER POST
Source
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Surfaced by the DPRK_Dev_Star account, an anonymous parody/expose account that narrates in an operator voice to out DPRK developer personas; it is followed by the named researchers this file otherwise draws on. The post pairs the Vercel portfolio kauai-site.vercel.app with the GitHub account github.com/tech-master823, and the two corroborate independently: the GitHub account, created September 2024 with 32 repositories, carries the display name Kauai Santana and the same senior-full-stack-developer framing as the site, and the site's own Github Profile button points to it. Recorded as the account's claim, with that corroboration noted; the source is weaker than the named-researcher dossiers, which is why the cross-check is stated. The GitHub account links the LinkedIn profile kauai-santana-dev and its commit history is dominated by carlsh0823@gmail.com (311 commits across its own repositories), the operator's own author address; both are added. Forked-repo commits carry unrelated upstream authors, which are not.
x.com/DPRK_Dev_Star/status/1984585764886208977 — DPRK_Dev_Star (@DPRK_Dev_Star)
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