Cheng Lin
Cheng Lin is an alias
that 3 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 2026-09-20.
The reporting files it under the persona Cheng Lin, 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 thread's second named worker, X account temunel, formerly chenglin1129, with the GitHub account temunus and an earlier temunel account preserved only on the Wayback Machine. 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: stackoverflow.com/users/23219369/temunel, mastodon.social/@temunel, temunel.hashnode.dev/, temunus.github.io/, github.com/temunus/temunus.github.io, web.archive.org/web/20240913165501/https://temunel.github.io/, web.archive.org/web/20241001025412/https://github.com/temunel, web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bns5masj5rbtdm5u2tbzq42q.
github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder — Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn) -
Found on 17 September 2026 by asking Docker Hub whether an account exists under temunel, one of the logins the registry already holds for this operator, and read from the profile cited. The account states a registration date of 29 April 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/temunel — Chollima Hunter -
Read on 20 September 2026 by walking the commit history of every repository on the GitHub account github.com/temunus, already held under this persona, and tallying the author line on every commit. A commit's author line is what the holder configured their git client with rather than anything the profile page chooses to display, so it recovers addresses the account never states. The address recorded here was not already in this index: patrickcoleman1129@outlook.com authored 17 commits across 4 of its repositories, commits as "temunus". Each is admitted because it commits under a name the account itself uses, which is the test that separates the holder's own address from the original author of a repository copied in. Addresses belonging to unrelated developers whose work appears in these repositories are deliberately not recorded, and an address is evidence that whoever held it wrote those commits rather than proof of who holds the account.
github.com/temunus — Chollima Hunter
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