Shaorun Zhang
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, Shaorun Zhang. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.
Identifiers attributed to this persona
10 indicators the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.
| Indicator | Type | Account status |
|---|---|---|
Shaorun Zhang |
alias | |
lucaswiliam116@gmail.com |
email address | |
shaorundev116@gmail.com |
email address | |
https://github.com/superbluestar |
github profile | removed |
shaorun-portfolio.vercel.app |
hosted site | |
https://laborx.com/freelancers/users/id32867 |
laborx account | live |
https://linktr.ee/shaorunzhang |
linktree account | live |
+13234128387 |
phone number | |
https://t.me/superbluestar |
telegram account | live |
https://xing.com/profile/shaorun_zhang019833 |
xing account | live |
Shaorun Zhang
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 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
lucaswiliam116@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 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
shaorundev116@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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 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://github.com/superbluestar
github profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST removed
Also listed under Naoyuki Tanaka — 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
shaorun-portfolio.vercel.app
hosted site IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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 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://laborx.com/freelancers/users/id32867
laborx account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live
Also listed under Naoyuki Tanaka — this value’s page names all of them.
live
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://linktr.ee/shaorunzhang
linktree account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live
live
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 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
+13234128387
phone number IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Line type
| Line type | VoIP |
|---|---|
| Carrier | BANDWIDTH.COM |
| Rate centre | LOS ANGELES, CA |
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 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://t.me/superbluestar
telegram account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live
Also listed under Huy Diep, Naoyuki Tanaka — this value’s page names all of them.
live
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 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://xing.com/profile/shaorun_zhang019833
xing account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live
live
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 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