Kauai Santana
Also reported as: Kauai Martins Santanatech-master823
A fabricated professional identity used in the DPRK remote IT-worker scheme. Everything below is transcribed from the cited post, in which a named researcher attributes these accounts to a single operator, Kauai Santana. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.
Screenshot of the persona's portfolio site, kauai-site.vercel.app, headed "Hi, I am Kauai Santana. Senior Full Stack Developer" with a generated portrait. It is the image the identity presented as itself.
LinkedIn accounts
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kauai-santana-dev/
removed
linkedin profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST removed
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)
Identifiers reported alongside
5 indicators the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.
| Indicator | Type | Account status |
|---|---|---|
Kauai Martins Santana |
alias | |
Kauai Santana |
alias | |
carlsh0823@gmail.com |
email address | |
https://github.com/tech-master823 |
github profile | live |
kauai-site.vercel.app |
hosted site |
Kauai Martins Santana
alias 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)
Kauai Santana
alias 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)
carlsh0823@gmail.com
email address 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)
https://github.com/tech-master823
github profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live
live
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)
kauai-site.vercel.app
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)
Sources
- x.com/DPRK_Dev_Star/status/1984585764886208977 — DPRK_Dev_Star (@DPRK_Dev_Star)