Roman Savchuk
Roman Savchuk is an alias
that 4 published sources report
in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting
attributes to North Korea (DPRK).
It is cited here from Narcass3 (@Narcass3) and Chollima Hunter.
The earliest of those reports is dated 2025-07-05 and the most recent 2026-09-24.
The reporting files it under the persona Roman Savchuk, alongside 9 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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The post gives the two GitHub accounts together as "tortuc/commithero111" and names the operator under both a Ukrainian-presenting first identity and a second one. It also links profiles on two European freelancing and business networks.
x.com/Narcass3/status/1941540495966236785 — Narcass3 (@Narcass3) -
Found on 17 September 2026 by asking Docker Hub whether an account exists under tortuc, one of the logins the registry already holds for this operator, and read from the profile cited. The account states a registration date of 30 October 2021. 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/tortuc — Chollima Hunter -
Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- koalah86 -- 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 MERN_DEV_PRO. 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/koalah86 — 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 100 commits signed tortuc611@gmail.com, an address Narcass3 publishes for this persona, to the login tortuch, which no longer resolves.
github.com/tortuch — Chollima Hunter
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Related indicators
Same persona record: Roman Savchuk
All 9 on the Roman Savchuk page