Naoyuki Tanaka
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, Naoyuki Tanaka. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.
Identifiers attributed to this persona
17 indicators the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.
| Indicator | Type | Account status |
|---|---|---|
Naoyuki Tanaka |
alias | |
https://calendly.com/alexander116gm |
calendly account | |
superbluestar.wixsite.com |
domain | |
alexander116@gmail.com |
email address | |
alexander116@hotmail.com |
email address | |
alexander116gm@gmail.com |
email address | |
https://github.com/superbluestar |
github profile | removed |
https://himalayas.app/@superbluestar |
himalayas account | live |
portfolio-one-navy-24.vercel.app |
hosted site | |
https://laborx.com/freelancers/users/id32867 |
laborx account | live |
+815055326308 |
phone number | |
https://producthunt.com/@superbluestar |
producthunt account | |
https://t.me/superbluestar |
telegram account | live |
https://torre.ai/alexander116gm |
torre account | live |
https://trello.com/u/superbluestar |
trello account | |
https://upwork.com/freelancers/naoyukit |
upwork account | |
https://xing.com/profile/naoyuki_tanaka |
xing account | live |
Naoyuki Tanaka
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
https://calendly.com/alexander116gm
calendly account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
superbluestar.wixsite.com
domain IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
alexander116@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
alexander116@hotmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
alexander116gm@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos -
…Investigated via Telegram username 'superbluestar', which appeared on both Huy Diep's and Naoyuki Tanaka 's resumes • Email address alexander116gm@gmail.com included on the Naoyuki Tanaka resume — not consistent with the name • Still active on Torre AI at the time of this investigation This…
Beejern: DPRK IT Worker Front Company Network — North Scan
https://github.com/superbluestar
github profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST removed
Also listed under Shaorun Zhang — this value’s page names all of them.
removed
Sources
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos -
Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report attributes the superbluestar username jointly to this persona and Naoyuki Tanaka, and shows the persona's linktr.ee photograph to be an advertising image of another person. The repository shaorun-dev116.github.io, held by github.com/kamaalsultan, is where the report shows the persona being built. The report gives the phone number as 323 412 8387 with no country code; 323 is a Los Angeles area code, so it is carried as a United States number.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
https://himalayas.app/@superbluestar
himalayas account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live
live
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
portfolio-one-navy-24.vercel.app
hosted site IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
https://laborx.com/freelancers/users/id32867
laborx account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live
Also listed under Shaorun Zhang — this value’s page names all of them.
live
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos -
Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report attributes the superbluestar username jointly to this persona and Naoyuki Tanaka, and shows the persona's linktr.ee photograph to be an advertising image of another person. The repository shaorun-dev116.github.io, held by github.com/kamaalsultan, is where the report shows the persona being built. The report gives the phone number as 323 412 8387 with no country code; 323 is a Los Angeles area code, so it is carried as a United States number.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
+815055326308
phone number IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Line type
| Line type | Landline |
|---|---|
| Carrier | RAKUTEN COMMUNICATIONS |
| Rate centre | JAPAN |
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
https://producthunt.com/@superbluestar
producthunt account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
https://t.me/superbluestar
telegram account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live
Also listed under Huy Diep, Shaorun Zhang — this value’s page names all of them.
live
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report reached this persona through nickdev0118, which co-authored commits with AnacondaDev0120, a previously identified likely DPRK IT-worker account, and found it listed on the Huy Diep website, whose photographs it shows to be the persona's head pasted onto stock images. The report states the persona appears to have been employed as a software engineer at a Japanese consulting company since September 2023. The Telegram handle superbluestar is one the report attributes jointly to this persona, Naoyuki Tanaka and Shaorun Zhang.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos -
Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos -
Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report attributes the superbluestar username jointly to this persona and Naoyuki Tanaka, and shows the persona's linktr.ee photograph to be an advertising image of another person. The repository shaorun-dev116.github.io, held by github.com/kamaalsultan, is where the report shows the persona being built. The report gives the phone number as 323 412 8387 with no country code; 323 is a Los Angeles area code, so it is carried as a United States number.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
https://torre.ai/alexander116gm
torre account IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE live
Listed as alexander116gm
live
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos -
…from an individual already identified by Nisos Research as a confirmed DPRK IT worker persona: Naoyuki Tanaka Figure 4c. https://torre.ai/alexander116gm?r=OkFgNF0o 3.2 Naoyuki Tanaka - Nisos Confirmed DPRK IT Worker Nisos Research identified Naoyuki Tanaka as a DPRK IT worker persona…
Beejern: DPRK IT Worker Front Company Network — North Scan
https://trello.com/u/superbluestar
trello account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
https://upwork.com/freelancers/naoyukit
upwork account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos
https://xing.com/profile/naoyuki_tanaka
xing account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live
live
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Nisos's report of 19 March 2025, "Likely DPRK Network Backstops on GitHub, Targets Companies Globally", published on its site and as a LinkedIn article whose full text is a PDF, tracks personas posing as Vietnamese, Japanese and Singaporean developers that reuse matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content from older personas, and whose addresses recur with the number 116 and the word dev. The values here are from the report's contact table and its footnotes. The companies the personas list as employers are not carried as indicators. The report ties this persona to the GitHub account superbluestar and to the alexander116 addresses and a Japanese phone number, and assesses that the Karl Chong persona's portfolio is being backstopped with Naoyuki Tanaka's work.
6068438.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6068438/dprk-github-employment-fraud.pdf — Nisos