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https://github.com/bestsilvertiger

https://github.com/bestsilvertiger is a GitHub account that 3 published sources report in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group), Chollima Hunter and tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research). The earliest of those reports is dated 2026-08-30 and the most recent 2026-10-18.

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.

github profile IT Worker Fraud CURATED removed checked 2026-08-30

Listed as bestsilvertiger

First seen 2026-08-30 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
    lazarus.group/team/pete-yama — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Pete Yama / Bill Tovitt / cryptopunk / cryptopunkclan / bestsilvertiger / brightdragon0719 / btcwhiz / abcd_0621_ / hunter0409 / building_jk” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • 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
  • …Pete Yama / cryptopunk - Pixelcraft (2022), Munchables (2024) - cryptopunk - cryptopunkclan - x.com/cryptopunkclan - github.com/bestsilvertiger - github.com/brightdragon0719 • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/save/https://github.com/brightdragon0719) -…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Pete Yama / cryptopunk” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

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Cited by the same report: lazarus.group/team/pete-yama

Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) lists 8 other indicators in this source. 2 are shown, chosen across types.

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Disclaimer An entry here is not proof of DPRK affiliation or wrongdoing. A listed name, account or address may belong to an uninvolved person, so each entry is a lead to verify independently. What inclusion means. See the sourcing methodology.