https://github.com/devmaster929

https://github.com/devmaster929 is a GitHub account that 2 published sources report in connection with Contagious Interview activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Heiner García and Coinmonks. The earliest of those reports is dated 2024-06-20 and the most recent 2024-07-23.

github profile Contagious Interview MATCHED IN SOURCE removed checked 2026-09-30

Listed as devmaster929

First seen 2024-06-20 · last seen 2024-07-23

Sources

  • The post of 20 June 2024 walks outward from the only follower of the KaanKayabasi GitHub account, devmaster929 (registered to goodfriend9290@gmail.com, joined 15 January 2024), through a repository shared with goodfriend9290 (goodfriend9290@skiff.com), that account's only follower smartdev0119, and the accounts smartdev0119 follows, goodman4293 (goodsuperman@skiff.com) and WebWizard109707. It then describes about 250 recruiter accounts, most created in January 2024 and followed by both devmaster929 and sammorozov, and names three that pair copied LinkedIn links with invented details. The post does not name North Korea; the set is filed unattributed.
    medium.com/coinmonks/fake-recruiters-in-github-68d0d3bf297d — Heiner García · under “devmaster929 recruiter-follower network (Heiner García)” · published 2024-06-20 · pulled 2026-09-28
  • …As evidenced, this profile was following multiple fake recruiter accounts https://github.com/devmaster929 After publishing the first investigation , the profile devmaster929 and several GitHub profiles mentioned with high activity related to…
    Investigating the campaigns of Lazarus Group targeting developers and companies — Coinmonks · under ““Creation and organization of fake-synthetic profiles in GitHub”” · published 2024-07-23 · pulled 2026-09-12

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