Benjamin Nguyen
Benjamin Nguyen is an alias
that 2 published sources report
in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting
attributes to North Korea (DPRK).
It is cited here from Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) and Chollima Hunter.
The reports are dated 2026-09-24.
The reporting files it under the persona Benjamin Nguyen, alongside 7 other identifiers attributed to the same identity. The persona page shows them together with any accounts, photographs and CV recorded under that name. A persona name is the one an account presented under, and may belong to an uninvolved person whose identity was taken.
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/benjamin-nguyen — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) -
Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for every personal address the lazarus.group registry and the ZEUS-DEV-919 working document give for a persona, and keeping the accounts whose own commits are signed with one. GitHub mints a noreply address from an account's immutable numeric id, in the form id+handle@users.noreply.github.com, so former handles below are a matter of record. github.com/jonyx225 is account id 47555611, created on 12 February 2019, with 222 public repositories. Its commits carry 47555611+ponyjackal@users.noreply.github.com, so it is the account lazarus.group and tayvano list as github.com/ponyjackal, renamed; that handle now returns not found. It signs 84 of the 100 commits GitHub's search returns for it with pony1125@outlook.com, an address the registry gives for Benjamin Nguyen, under the author names pony and ponyjackal.
github.com/jonyx225 — Chollima Hunter
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Related indicators
Same persona record: Benjamin Nguyen
All 7 on the Benjamin Nguyen page