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Leon Lin

Leon Lin 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 Leon Lin, alongside 18 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 2026-09-24 · last seen 2026-09-24

Sources

  • Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator and gives their real citizenship as North Korea. 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/leon-lin — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Leon Lin / Leon Lowden / Abe Sinjiro / Bernard Shibata” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • 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/shaman236 is account id 37606416, created on 21 March 2018. Its noreply addresses show it was previously named 0xl2, naruto0913 and abe-sinjiro; 0xl2 is on tayvano's list of IT-worker GitHub accounts, which this index already carries, so this is that account under its current name. It signs 94 of the 100 commits GitHub's search returns for it with abe.sinjiro7@gmail.com, and six more commits in its repositories are signed real_striver@outlook.com; lazarus.group gives both addresses for Leon Lin. Its repositories, test-risk among them, are committed with those identities on the day they are created.
    github.com/shaman236 — Chollima Hunter · under “Leon Lin” · pulled 2026-09-24

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Related indicators

Same persona record: Leon Lin

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 8 of 18 are shown.

All 18 on the Leon Lin page

Cited by the same report: lazarus.group/team/leon-lin

Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) lists 17 other indicators in this source. 3 are shown, chosen across types.

All 18 indicators from this source

Cited by the same report: github.com/shaman236

Chollima Hunter lists 3 other indicators in this source. 1 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.