https://github.com/cryptostar7

https://github.com/cryptostar7 is a GitHub 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 Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies). The report is dated 2025-04-23.

The reporting files it under the persona cryptostar7. 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 RESEARCHER POST live checked 2026-09-02

First seen 2025-04-23 · last seen 2025-04-23

Source

  • The account name is transcribed by hand from the attached screenshot of the GitHub profile page, which carries the handle cryptostar7 and describes the holder as a freelancer and job seeker working in blockchain. The address karrem1281@outlook.sa is the dominant author on the commits in this account's own GitHub repositories, recovered 2026-09-12; it is the operator's own commit address, not a forked repo's upstream author.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1915111997353439448 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “cryptostar7” · published 2025-04-23 · pulled 2026-08-30

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Account analysis

Account created2023-05-13
Repositories43 original, 7 forked
History older than the account0 repositories
Commits copied into others' repositories0
Commit identities0 addresses, 1 name

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From gh-fake-analyzer 1.0.2, the Ketman Project's GitHub analysis tool, run on 2026-10-01. These are signals: backdated history and several commit identities are common among ordinary developers too, and an account that shows none of them is not thereby cleared.

Related indicators

Cited by the same report: x.com/browsercookies/status/1915111997353439448

Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) lists 1 other indicator in this source.

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