https://dev.to/spectrecoder

https://dev.to/spectrecoder 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 SpectreCoder. 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

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Source

  • Read on 13 September 2026 from the page cited. The dev.to account spectrecoder presents as SpectreCoder and dates its registration to 21 September 2024. It gives its education as Universiti Utara Malaysia and its work as Lead Developer, lists Solidity, Rust, Move, Func, TypeScript, Python, Go, PyTorch and TensorFlow among its languages, and says it is working on blockchain NFT projects and learning artificial intelligence. It has published no posts and written no comments, and follows 27 tags. Its one outbound link is github.com/spectrecoder, which now returns 404. The handle is the same string as the Freelancer account freelancer.com/u/spectrecoder, which the reporting files under Aldino Saputra, and the two profiles describe the same line of work. This site does not treat that as enough to call them one operator: a handle is an account name rather than a person, and two identities are joined here only where they share an indicator value. The entry therefore stands on its own, so the observation is recorded and reachable by the handle; should a value shared with that persona appear, the two will join on it.
    dev.to/spectrecoder — Chollima Hunter · under “SpectreCoder” · pulled 2026-09-13

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