https://github.com/grudev325

https://github.com/grudev325 is a GitHub account that 2 published sources report in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) and Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group). The reports are dated 2025-06-14.

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

Listed under KGJ, Paul Song.

First seen 2025-06-14 · last seen 2025-06-14

Sources

  • The researcher presents all of these accounts as one operator, given only by the initials KGJ, across four posts on the same day. The first lists the X and GitHub accounts, the second names the identities Lendon Bracewell, John Faryno, Flavio Santos and Felix Martel and links a PeoplePerHour freelancer profile, and the last two list the addresses. Both spellings dev0825conscientious and dev0825conscientiouos are transcribed as published; the second looks like a typo the operator made, and correcting it would invent an address. Several of these accounts already reach this site from tayvano's research repository and the lazarus.group registry, so those records carry both citations.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1934033205709218285 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “KGJ / Lendon Bracewell / John Faryno / Flavio Santos / Felix Martel / Alberto Mira” · published 2025-06-14 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • 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/paul-song — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Paul Song / grudev325 / seniordev / drujustine0122 / snowdev1205 / BestSilverTiger” · pulled 2026-09-09

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Same persona record: KGJ

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Same persona record: Paul Song

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 4 of 10 are shown.

All 10 on the Paul Song page

Cited by the same report: x.com/browsercookies/status/1934033205709218285

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Cited by the same report: lazarus.group/team/paul-song

Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) lists 8 other indicators in this source. 1 are shown, chosen across types.

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