Pete Yama
Also reported as: Bill Tovittcryptopunkcryptopunkclanbestsilvertigerbrightdragon0719btcwhizabcd_0621_hunter0409building_jk
A professional identity listed by a third-party registry of suspected DPRK IT-worker personas, cited below. The registry publishes no byline or methodology, so the attribution is the registry's. Values this site read from a live account are cited to the page and date.
Photograph published by the registry under this persona, captioned there as “Bill Tovitt / Pete Yama profile picture.”. It shows whoever appeared under this identity, which is not necessarily the person whose details the identity was assembled from — these operations routinely build a persona around a real, uninvolved person.
Identifiers attributed to this persona
12 indicators the sources below record for this operator, each with its sources.
| Indicator | Type | Account status |
|---|---|---|
Bill Tovitt |
alias | |
cryptopunk |
alias | |
Pete Yama |
alias | |
https://dev.to/bestsilvertiger |
devto account | live |
https://freelancer.com/u/bestsilvertiger |
freelancer account | |
https://github.com/bestsilvertiger |
github profile | removed |
https://github.com/brightdragon0719 |
github profile | removed |
https://github.com/btcwhiz |
github profile | removed |
https://gitlab.com/hunter0409 |
gitlab account | live |
https://t.me/hunter0409 |
telegram account | live |
https://x.com/abcd_0621_ |
x account | |
https://x.com/cryptopunkclan |
x account |
Bill Tovitt
alias IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY
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Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
lazarus.group/team/pete-yama — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group)
cryptopunk
alias IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY
Also listed under Paul Martin — this value’s page names all of them.
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Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
lazarus.group/team/paul-martin-cryptopunk — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) -
Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
lazarus.group/team/pete-yama — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group)
Pete Yama
alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED
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Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
lazarus.group/team/pete-yama — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) -
Found on 12 September 2026 by searching the open web for the account handles this site already holds for this operator, and read directly from the page cited. The GitLab account under the login hunter0409 states its display name as Pete Yama — the name the reporting already gives this operator — and a member-since date of 19 May 2022, with no bio and no links. The DEV Community account under the login bestsilvertiger joined on 6 March 2024, publishes a link to github.com/BestSilverTiger, which is the GitHub account already attributed here, and gives as its entire biography the string "404 bio not found".
gitlab.com/hunter0409 — Chollima Hunter -
Found on 18 September 2026 by putting bestsilvertiger, one of the GitHub logins the index already holds for this operator, to Maigret's username search and then asking Freelancer's public user endpoint, which answers with the account record and, for a name that does not exist, with nothing. Freelancer returns the account with the display name Closed User and a registration date of 4 August 2020: an account existed under the handle and has since been closed, which is recorded here because a closed account is still a registration, and the date is the one fact it states. The handle is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and a display name on a profile is a name the account presents, not an identification.
www.freelancer.com/u/bestsilvertiger — Chollima Hunter
https://dev.to/bestsilvertiger
devto account IT Worker Fraud CURATED live
live
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Found on 12 September 2026 by searching the open web for the account handles this site already holds for this operator, and read directly from the page cited. The GitLab account under the login hunter0409 states its display name as Pete Yama — the name the reporting already gives this operator — and a member-since date of 19 May 2022, with no bio and no links. The DEV Community account under the login bestsilvertiger joined on 6 March 2024, publishes a link to github.com/BestSilverTiger, which is the GitHub account already attributed here, and gives as its entire biography the string "404 bio not found".
dev.to/bestsilvertiger — Chollima Hunter
https://freelancer.com/u/bestsilvertiger
freelancer account IT Worker Fraud CURATED
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Found on 18 September 2026 by putting bestsilvertiger, one of the GitHub logins the index already holds for this operator, to Maigret's username search and then asking Freelancer's public user endpoint, which answers with the account record and, for a name that does not exist, with nothing. Freelancer returns the account with the display name Closed User and a registration date of 4 August 2020: an account existed under the handle and has since been closed, which is recorded here because a closed account is still a registration, and the date is the one fact it states. The handle is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and a display name on a profile is a name the account presents, not an identification.
www.freelancer.com/u/bestsilvertiger — Chollima Hunter
https://github.com/bestsilvertiger
github profile IT Worker Fraud CURATED removed
Listed as bestsilvertiger
removed
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Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
lazarus.group/team/pete-yama — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) -
Found on 12 September 2026 by searching the open web for the account handles this site already holds for this operator, and read directly from the page cited. The GitLab account under the login hunter0409 states its display name as Pete Yama — the name the reporting already gives this operator — and a member-since date of 19 May 2022, with no bio and no links. The DEV Community account under the login bestsilvertiger joined on 6 March 2024, publishes a link to github.com/BestSilverTiger, which is the GitHub account already attributed here, and gives as its entire biography the string "404 bio not found".
dev.to/bestsilvertiger — Chollima Hunter -
…Pete Yama / cryptopunk - Pixelcraft (2022), Munchables (2024) - cryptopunk - cryptopunkclan - x.com/cryptopunkclan - github.com/bestsilvertiger - github.com/brightdragon0719 • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/save/https://github.com/brightdragon0719) -…
DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research)
https://github.com/brightdragon0719
github profile IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE removed
Listed as brightdragon0719
removed
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Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
lazarus.group/team/pete-yama — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) -
…Pixelcraft (2022), Munchables (2024) - cryptopunk - cryptopunkclan - x.com/cryptopunkclan - github.com/bestsilvertiger - github.com/brightdragon0719 • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/save/https://github.com/brightdragon0719) -  ####…
DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research)
https://github.com/btcwhiz
github profile IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE removed
Listed as btcwhiz
removed
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Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
lazarus.group/team/pete-yama — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) -
…+ Bill Tovitt - 2024 - One dev, one "artist", scammed - btcwhiz - abcd_0621_ - hunter0409 - building_jk - x.com/abcd_0621_ - github.com/btcwhiz - t.me/hunter0409 (ID: 5031331438) • ([Messages](./user-5031331438-@hunter0409-munchables-pete-yama.txt)) -…
DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research)
https://gitlab.com/hunter0409
gitlab account IT Worker Fraud CURATED live
live
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Found on 12 September 2026 by searching the open web for the account handles this site already holds for this operator, and read directly from the page cited. The GitLab account under the login hunter0409 states its display name as Pete Yama — the name the reporting already gives this operator — and a member-since date of 19 May 2022, with no bio and no links. The DEV Community account under the login bestsilvertiger joined on 6 March 2024, publishes a link to github.com/BestSilverTiger, which is the GitHub account already attributed here, and gives as its entire biography the string "404 bio not found".
gitlab.com/hunter0409 — Chollima Hunter
https://t.me/hunter0409
telegram account IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE live
Listed as hunter0409
live
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Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
lazarus.group/team/pete-yama — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) -
…2024 - One dev, one "artist", scammed - btcwhiz - abcd_0621_ - hunter0409 - building_jk - x.com/abcd_0621_ - github.com/btcwhiz - t.me/hunter0409 (ID: 5031331438) • ([Messages](./user-5031331438-@hunter0409-munchables-pete-yama.txt)) -  --- ## Pine…
DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research)
https://x.com/abcd_0621_
x account IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY
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Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
lazarus.group/team/pete-yama — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group)
https://x.com/cryptopunkclan
x account IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY
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Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
lazarus.group/team/pete-yama — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group)
Sources
- DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research)
- lazarus.group/team/paul-martin-cryptopunk — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group)
- lazarus.group/team/pete-yama — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group)
- gitlab.com/hunter0409 — Chollima Hunter
- dev.to/bestsilvertiger — Chollima Hunter
- www.freelancer.com/u/bestsilvertiger — Chollima Hunter