`https://github.com/secretstar521`

https://github.com/secretstar521 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 2026-10-03.

The reporting files it under the persona Gerson Stuva, alongside 5 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 UNDER REVIEW

First seen 2026-10-03 · last seen 2026-10-03

Source

Confirmed by Chollima Hunter research and rated high confidence; corroborated by Post listing Gerson Stuva among the other personas of one operator, browsercookies on X. Found on 3 October 2026 while tracing the Kaspar Kruus persona, whose operator the researcher's post also gives the alias Gerson Stuva. The GitHub account hsweataimpact, created on 11 June 2025, displays the name Gerson Stuva and the bio "Head of Engineering at Aimpact Limited, who is hiring Interview Coordinator (Native/Fluent English)": a recruiting pitch for someone to sit in on interviews in fluent English. A commit search on the name returns one commit authored as Gerson Stuva under the private address of TopSecretStar, an account created in June 2021 that displays the name Gerson Cordova, Senior Software Developer with over ten years of experience, Kyle, Texas. That commit sits in secretstar521/Trading-View on 22 September 2024 beside commits by TopSecretStar at krrawata@gmail.com, by secretstar521 (Secret Star, Sr. Software Engineer, created December 2023) and one from a Windows machine named DESKTOP-LA2HM8U at prodev323@gmail.com. Aimpact is a common company name and no specific firm is suggested.
chollimahunter.github.io/remote-workers/ — Chollima Hunter · under “Gerson Stuva” · pulled 2026-10-03

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Account analysis

Account created	2023-12-14
Repositories	25 original, 0 forked
History older than the account	9 repositories: `Angular-FullStack` (first commit 2020-07-16), `FullStack-Development` (first commit 2021-09-09), `MSAL-React` (first commit 2023-06-22), `React-Native-Chat` (first commit 2022-07-13), `react_web3` (first commit 2022-05-02)
Commits copied into others' repositories	0
Commit identities	2 addresses, 4 names; up to 3 names on one address; up to 2 addresses under one name

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Follows these indexed accounts

From gh-fake-analyzer 1.0.2, the Ketman Project's GitHub analysis tool, run on 2026-10-08. 1 other commit address is held for review rather than listed. 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: Gerson Stuva

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 4 of 5 are shown.

All 5 on the Gerson Stuva page

Cited by the same report: chollimahunter.github.io/remote-workers/

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