michael-bum

A profile a reviewer opened and left under review. It matches screening signals of DPRK IT-worker personas; no connection to those operations is stated.

Statusunder review
Confidencemedium
Profile
Account created2025-09-20
Network —
Claims —
Line type VOIP
Bandwidth (Chollima Hunter lookup)
Photograph —
SignalsAccount age vs claimReal namesake
Surfaced byChollima Hunter research
Found byLinkedIn addresses handed to the queue by the site's operator from their own browsing, with no query behind them
First seen2026-10-03
Last checked2026-10-03

Indicators

Indexed in the Remote Workers search, each with its own page:

Review

Chollima Hunter research records that an applicant used the name and LinkedIn identity of a real, long-established engineer; that person is a victim of the impersonation and is not named or linked here. The list gives mb860102.us@gmail.com and a Bandwidth number. A GitHub commit search on 3 October 2026 shows that address committing under the impersonated name from the account michael-bum, created on 20 September 2025 with no profile details, and in repositories of shishirparvaz780 and davidh8991: a run of numbered autoppia_agent repositories, agents for the Autoppia web-agent subnet, between September 2025 and May 2026. Those two accounts are recorded as the places the commits sit, not as anything else.

Sources

  • GitHub read by the reviewer
  • Chollima Hunter review, last checked 2026-10-03
Unconfirmed lead under review 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. The heading is the name or account the profile presents under, not established to be the name of whoever operates it. The confidence is this site’s own screening score, not a source’s. If this entry concerns you, see the guidance for listed people.