https://github.com/bestdeveloper23

https://github.com/bestdeveloper23 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 2025-05-17.

github profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live checked 2026-09-02

First seen 2025-05-17 · last seen 2025-05-17

Source

  • The post says the operator's associates signed a guestbook on his GitHub profile and that the entries link to their profiles. The three names are transcribed by hand from the attached screenshot of that guestbook, where each is rendered as a link beside a GitHub-style identicon. The researcher characterises them as associates of the Lovely Developer operator but does not attribute any of them to a named person, so they anchor no persona here. The address softangel0090@gmail.com 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/1923540150686187802 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Accounts that signed the guestbook on the Josue Valdivia profile” · published 2025-05-17 · pulled 2026-08-30

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Account analysis

Account created2023-02-20
Repositories30 original, 1 forked
History older than the account0 repositories
Commits copied into others' repositories0
Commit identities1 address, 5 names; up to 5 names on one address; up to 2 addresses under one name

Commit addresses this index holds

Follows these indexed accounts

From gh-fake-analyzer 1.0.2, the Ketman Project's GitHub analysis tool, run on 2026-10-27. 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/1923540150686187802

Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) lists 3 other indicators in this source.

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