Zhoe Ja Ryong

Zhoe Ja Ryong is an alias that 3 published sources report in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) and Chollima Hunter. The earliest of those reports is dated 2025-07-23 and the most recent 2026-09-24.

The reporting files it under the persona Zhoe Ja Ryong, alongside 4 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

First seen 2025-07-23 · last seen 2026-09-24

Sources

  • The post separately names github.com/NeonNexus0408 as the account this persona copied its portfolio site from, and characterizes that account as DPRK. It is recorded here as a related account, not as this persona's own.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1947837619876045019 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Zhoe Ja Ryong / joun-099910” · published 2025-07-23 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- joun3910 -- and asking GitLab whether an account exists under it. The address is on a consumer mail host, where the local part is a login the holder chose rather than one an employer assigned; handles taken from company addresses were excluded from this pass for that reason. The account states a display name of Joun. The display name is kept here rather than carried as an alias, because it restates the handle, describes the work, or is too bare to be a name. The login 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.
    gitlab.com/joun3910 — Chollima Hunter · under “Zhoe Ja Ryong” · pulled 2026-09-18
  • Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for published persona addresses and reading which account GitHub attributes the commits to. GitHub credits a commit to the account that has the signing address registered and verified, which only the holder of the mailbox can do, so an attributed account is one the address's holder controls, whichever repository the commits sit in and whenever the address was added. Counts are of the commits GitHub's search returns, up to 100. GitHub attributes 13 commits signed joun3910@gmail.com, an address browsercookies publishes for this persona, to github.com/kai-dev777, account id 211805368, created on 15 May 2025, display name 𝕂 | Sᴇɴɪᴏʀ Fᴜʟʟ-Sᴛᴀᴄᴋ 🄳🄴🅅, with 1 public repository.
    github.com/kai-dev777 — Chollima Hunter · under “Zhoe Ja Ryong” · pulled 2026-09-24

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Related indicators

Same persona record: Zhoe Ja Ryong

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 3 of 4 are shown.

All 4 on the Zhoe Ja Ryong page

Cited by the same report: x.com/browsercookies/status/1947837619876045019

Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) lists 3 other indicators in this source. 2 are shown, chosen across types.

All 4 indicators from this source

Disclaimer An entry here is not proof of DPRK affiliation or wrongdoing. A listed name, account or address may belong to an uninvolved person, so each entry is a lead to verify independently. What inclusion means. See the sourcing methodology.