Russell Hieu
Russell Hieu 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 Russell Hieu, 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
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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/russell-hieu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) -
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 johnpatch0502@outlook.com, an address the lazarus.group registry publishes for this persona, to the login johnpatch0502, which no longer resolves.
github.com/johnpatch0502 — Chollima Hunter
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Related indicators
Same persona record: Russell Hieu
All 9 on the Russell Hieu page