Khanh Nguyen
Khanh 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 Khanh Nguyen, 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
Sources
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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/khanh-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/MerkleEngineer is account id 175926331, created on 18 July 2024, with the bio Seasoned Blockchain & Web Developer with 10 years of experience. GitHub attributes 824 commits to it; of the 100 its search returns, 99 are signed dev.tianlong33@gmail.com and one christinejurich17@gmail.com, both addresses lazarus.group gives for Khanh Nguyen, and they are made under the author name DevCrown333, the GitHub handle the registry gives for the persona, which now returns not found. Five of its eight repositories were created on the day the account was and committed that day. Its pooltogether-pool-contracts, created on 21 August 2024, carries 221 commits dated from September 2020 onward re-signed as DevCrown333, an open-source project's history presented as the account's own.
github.com/MerkleEngineer — Chollima Hunter
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Related indicators
Same persona record: Khanh Nguyen
All 4 on the Khanh Nguyen page