Kerli Saar
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, Kerli Saar. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.
Identifiers attributed to this persona
2 indicators the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.
| Indicator | Type | Account status |
|---|---|---|
Kerli Saar |
alias | |
kerlsa0573@outlook.com |
email address |
Kerli Saar
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Source
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Hayden McKenzie publishes this as one of 53 generated female personas in a DPRK IT worker cell's account register, each built around an Outlook mailbox and a LinkedIn profile for an identity based in Estonia; the address above is that mailbox. The register marks no LinkedIn profile as created for it. The report The Women Behind North Korea's IT Worker Operations, published the same day, attributes the register to a first-time operative the cell calls Jasmine Bell, who built it in her first weeks after being told to favour European identities because U.S. profiles were too troublesome to create; its own table counts 57 Outlook accounts across the eight country tabs, four more than the site publishes records for. The name is a generated identity, not the operator's, and a real woman who shares it is not the worker.
haydenmckenzie.com/aliases/kerli+saar — Hayden McKenzie
kerlsa0573@outlook.com
email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Source
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Hayden McKenzie publishes this as one of 53 generated female personas in a DPRK IT worker cell's account register, each built around an Outlook mailbox and a LinkedIn profile for an identity based in Estonia; the address above is that mailbox. The register marks no LinkedIn profile as created for it. The report The Women Behind North Korea's IT Worker Operations, published the same day, attributes the register to a first-time operative the cell calls Jasmine Bell, who built it in her first weeks after being told to favour European identities because U.S. profiles were too troublesome to create; its own table counts 57 Outlook accounts across the eight country tabs, four more than the site publishes records for. The name is a generated identity, not the operator's, and a real woman who shares it is not the worker.
haydenmckenzie.com/aliases/kerli+saar — Hayden McKenzie
Sources
- haydenmckenzie.com/aliases/kerli+saar — Hayden McKenzie