Michael Liu Liang

Michael Liu Liang is an alias that 5 published sources report in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn) and Chollima Hunter. The earliest of those reports is dated 2025-08-09 and the most recent 2026-09-28.

The reporting files it under the persona Michael Liu Liang, 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 2025-08-09 · last seen 2026-09-28

Sources

  • Two persona names on one set of accounts: portfolios under both Michael Liang and Joseph Jackson point at the same phoenixfeather0208 handle across GitHub, Telegram, Bluesky, Mastodon and Substack. Transcribed from the researcher's chart, which groups every account under the name it gives here and draws its links from mutual follows, shared contact details and repositories carrying one another's details. Accounts on platforms this site does not index, as the chart lists them: github.com/0phoenixfeather0208/resume, bsky.app/profile/phoenixfeather0208.bsky.social, substack.com/@phoenixfeather0208, mastodon.social/@phoenixfeather0208, forem.com/michael_liang_0208.
    github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder — Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn) · under “Michael Liu Liang / Joseph Jackson / Michael Liang” · published 2025-08-09 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • Found on 13 September 2026 by probing every account handle this site already holds for this operator against dev.to, and read from the profile's own public API. An account exists under michael_liang_0208, a login the index already carries for this persona on another platform. It gives a joined date of May 7, 2025. It displays "Michael Liang", a display name rather than a person's name. The profile links a GitHub account, phoenixfeather0208. 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.
    dev.to/michael_liang_0208 — Chollima Hunter · under “Michael Liu Liang” · pulled 2026-09-13
  • Found on 17 September 2026 by asking Docker Hub whether an account exists under phoenixfeather0208, one of the logins the registry already holds for this operator, and read from the profile cited. The account states a registration date of 20 July 2026. 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/phoenixfeather0208 — Chollima Hunter · under “Michael Liu Liang” · pulled 2026-09-17
  • Found on 17 September 2026 by asking Hugging Face whether an account exists under phoenixfeather0208, one of the logins the registry already holds for this operator, and read from the profile cited. The account states a display name of Liu Liang. The display name is kept here rather than as an alias, because it restates the handle, describes the work, or repeats what this operator is already called. 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.
    huggingface.co/phoenixfeather0208 — Chollima Hunter · under “Michael Liu Liang” · pulled 2026-09-17
  • Read on 28 September 2026 from the site's own page and the script bundles it loads. The Joseph Jackson portfolio, which gives josephjackson0811@gmail.com as its address, lists a phone number and links a LinkedIn profile, a GitHub account and a Stack Overflow profile, the last two under the name Daniel Jin with the same 0811 suffix.
    joseph-jackson.vercel.app/ https://joseph-jackson.vercel.app/ not linked — Chollima Hunter · under “Michael Liu Liang” · pulled 2026-09-28

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Cited by the same report: github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder

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