Kazune Takeda
Kazune Takeda is an alias
that 9 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 Kazune Takeda, alongside 21 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 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/kazune-takeda — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) -
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 ethfuji, a login the index already carries for this persona on another platform. The profile gives a member-since date of 20 December 2019. It displays "D", 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/ethfuji — Chollima Hunter -
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 kazunetakeda25, a login the index already carries for this persona on another platform. The profile gives a member-since date of 17 March 2022. It displays the name Kazune Takeda, the same name the reporting already gives. 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/kazunetakeda25 — Chollima Hunter -
Found on 17 September 2026 by asking Keybase whether an account exists under kazunetakeda25, one of the logins the registry already holds for this operator, and read from the profile cited. The account states a registration date of 6 October 2022 and no display name but the handle itself. 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.
keybase.io/kazunetakeda25 — Chollima Hunter -
Found on 17 September 2026 by asking Docker Hub whether an account exists under kazunetakeda25, one of the logins the registry already holds for this operator, and read from the profile cited. The account states a registration date of 24 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/kazunetakeda25 — Chollima Hunter -
Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- jwtradera -- 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 John Wilhelmsson. 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/jwtradera — Chollima Hunter -
Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- jwtradera -- and asking Hugging Face 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 jwt. 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.
huggingface.co/jwtradera — Chollima Hunter -
Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- jwtradera -- and asking Docker Hub 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 registration date of 24 June 2025. 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.
hub.docker.com/u/jwtradera — Chollima Hunter -
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 6 commits signed kazune.takeda@yahoo.com, an address the lazarus.group registry publishes for this persona, to the login borrdd34, which no longer resolves.
github.com/borrdd34 — Chollima Hunter
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Related indicators
Same persona record: Kazune Takeda
All 21 on the Kazune Takeda page
Cited by the same report: lazarus.group/team/kazune-takeda
All 14 indicators from this source