https://github.com/brandon-dev-star

https://github.com/brandon-dev-star 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 Chollima Hunter. The report is dated 2026-09-18.

The reporting files it under the persona Brandon Humble, alongside 3 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 live checked 2026-09-18

First seen 2026-09-18 · last seen 2026-09-18

Source

  • Read on 18 September 2026 from GitHub's user search on the persona's name, which returned one account: brandon-dev-star, display name Brandon Humble, location Nacogdoches Texas, public email humblebrandon18@gmail.com, created 12 July 2024, no followers and following nobody, three repositories dated November and December 2024 of which one is described as a .NET and Angular to-do list and another is a QA Wolf take-home assignment. The city and the .NET stack are the ones the researcher's April 2025 capture gives for the Full Stack .Net Engineer account, and the login follows the name-dev-word pattern this site has seen on eric-dev-stevens. The LinkedIn address was not readable in the researcher's capture; Google's index carried it on the same day under the title Brandon Humble - Software Engineer - Korn Ferry, the employer the capture shows, and the page itself returned LinkedIn's does-not-exist notice when opened under an authenticated session, so the account is recorded as removed. Calendly and HackerRank, which the researcher named as platforms the identity was on, were probed under the obvious handles and hold nothing under them. The name is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and the entry records what the account itself states.
    github.com/brandon-dev-star — Chollima Hunter · under “Brandon Humble” · pulled 2026-09-18

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Account analysis

Account created2024-07-12
Repositories3 original, 0 forked
History older than the account0 repositories
Commits copied into others' repositories0
Commit identities1 address, 1 name

Commit addresses this index holds

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

Same persona record: Brandon Humble

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 2 of 3 are shown.

All 3 on the Brandon Humble page

Cited by the same report: github.com/brandon-dev-star

Chollima Hunter lists 2 other indicators in this source. 1 are shown, chosen across types.

All 3 indicators from this source

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.