Finding North Korean IT Workers On GitHub
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It’s not really a secret that North Korean IT workers are using GitHub for a number of reasons. While there are several posts that cover different clusters of users as well as why they are using GitHub, there aren’t many posts on finding accounts on GitHub.
Let’s take a step back and start to look for possible accounts online that might be related to IT workers interests. https://playerpuff.com is a website that allows users to buy and sell Upwork accounts and if we filter by users that are looking to buy an account on Upwork we find a post like this
From this post we can see the user Rionel has a Telegram account athene9101
Searching athene9101 on GitHub reveals an account that looks quite active over the last year
However if we dig into this slightly we can see that the account was created in February of 2025. This is something common amongst …
Let’s take a step back and start to look for possible accounts online that might be related to IT workers interests. https://playerpuff.com is a website that allows users to buy and sell Upwork accounts and if we filter by users that are looking to buy an account on Upwork we find a post like this
From this post we can see the user Rionel has a Telegram account athene9101
Searching athene9101 on GitHub reveals an account that looks quite active over the last year
However if we dig into this slightly we can see that the account was created in February of 2025. This is something common amongst …