https://dev.to/bestsilvertiger

https://dev.to/bestsilvertiger is a DEV Community account 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 Chollima Hunter.

The reporting files it under the persona Pete Yama, alongside 11 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

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • Found on 12 September 2026 by searching the open web for the account handles this site already holds for this operator, and read directly from the page cited. The GitLab account under the login hunter0409 states its display name as Pete Yama — the name the reporting already gives this operator — and a member-since date of 19 May 2022, with no bio and no links. The DEV Community account under the login bestsilvertiger joined on 6 March 2024, publishes a link to github.com/BestSilverTiger, which is the GitHub account already attributed here, and gives as its entire biography the string "404 bio not found".
    dev.to/bestsilvertiger — Chollima Hunter · under “Pete Yama” · pulled 2026-09-12

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Related indicators

Same persona record: Pete Yama

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 8 of 11 are shown.

All 11 on the Pete Yama page

Cited by the same report: dev.to/bestsilvertiger

Chollima Hunter lists 1 other indicator in this source.

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