https://dev.to/scott_brown_b611d05a865cf

https://dev.to/scott_brown_b611d05a865cf is a DEV Community account that 2 published sources report in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Chollima Hunter and tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research). The earliest of those reports is dated 2026-09-01 and the most recent 2026-10-18.

The reporting files it under the persona Scott Brown, alongside 20 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.

devto account IT Worker Fraud CURATED live checked 2026-11-08

Listed as scott_brown_b611d05a865cf

First seen 2026-09-01 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • 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 scott_brown_b611d05a865cf, a login the index already carries for this persona on another platform. It gives a joined date of Jul 22, 2024. It displays the name Scott Brown, the same name the reporting already gives. The profile links a GitHub account, nevermindhim. It gives a location of Bergen, Norway. 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/scott_brown_b611d05a865cf — Chollima Hunter · under “Scott Brown” · pulled 2026-09-13
  • …github.com/nevermindhim - github.com/verytinydever - linkedin.com/in/scott-brown-b947ba29a - linkedin.com/in/scott-brown-813445279 - dev.to/scott_brown_b611d05a865cf - www.impaxrecruitment.com/wp-content/uploads/elementor/forms/6786f200b23aa.pdf - 0x3b8cc82f5d3ec89d88c58504ecfefe4597020840 -…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Scott Brown” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-09-01

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Same persona record: Scott Brown

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 8 of 20 are shown.

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Cited by the same report: dev.to/scott_brown_b611d05a865cf

Chollima Hunter lists 1 other indicator in this source.

Cited by the same report: DPRK IT Workers

tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) lists 854 other indicators in this source. 3 are shown, chosen across types.

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