Chang Nam Il

Chang Nam Il 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 Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) and Chollima Hunter.

The reporting files it under the persona Chang Nam Il, alongside 11 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 unknown · last seen unknown

Sources

  • 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/bong-chee-shen — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Chang Nam Il / Alex Shen / devneser” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Found on 13 September 2026 by probing every account handle this site already holds for this operator against GitLab, and read from the profile cited. An active GitLab account exists under devneser, a login the index already carries for this persona on another platform. The profile gives a member-since date of 30 June 2021. It displays "devneser", which is a display name rather than a person's name and is recorded here rather than as an alias. The handle 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. The profile's bio, location and links render only in a browser and were not read, so nothing is claimed about them either way.
    gitlab.com/devneser — Chollima Hunter · under “Chang Nam Il” · pulled 2026-09-13
  • Found on 17 September 2026 by asking Docker Hub whether an account exists under devneser, one of the logins the registry already holds for this operator, and read from the profile cited. The account states a registration date of 10 March 2022. The handle 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.
    hub.docker.com/u/devneser — Chollima Hunter · under “Chang Nam Il” · pulled 2026-09-17

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Related indicators

Same persona record: Chang Nam Il

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 8 of 11 are shown.

All 11 on the Chang Nam Il page

Cited by the same report: lazarus.group/team/bong-chee-shen

Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) lists 9 other indicators in this source. 2 are shown, chosen across types.

All 10 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.