kauai-site.vercel.app
kauai-site.vercel.app is a hosted site
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 DPRK_Dev_Star (@DPRK_Dev_Star).
The report is dated 2025-11-01.
The reporting files it under the persona Kauai Santana, 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.
hosted site IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Source
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Surfaced by the DPRK_Dev_Star account, an anonymous parody/expose account that narrates in an operator voice to out DPRK developer personas; it is followed by the named researchers this file otherwise draws on. The post pairs the Vercel portfolio kauai-site.vercel.app with the GitHub account github.com/tech-master823, and the two corroborate independently: the GitHub account, created September 2024 with 32 repositories, carries the display name Kauai Santana and the same senior-full-stack-developer framing as the site, and the site's own Github Profile button points to it. Recorded as the account's claim, with that corroboration noted; the source is weaker than the named-researcher dossiers, which is why the cross-check is stated. The GitHub account links the LinkedIn profile kauai-santana-dev and its commit history is dominated by carlsh0823@gmail.com (311 commits across its own repositories), the operator's own author address; both are added. Forked-repo commits carry unrelated upstream authors, which are not.
x.com/DPRK_Dev_Star/status/1984585764886208977 — DPRK_Dev_Star (@DPRK_Dev_Star)
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