`james117lee@gmail.com`

james117lee@gmail.com is an email address 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 Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group), Chollima Hunter and tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research). The earliest of those reports is dated 2026-08-30 and the most recent 2026-10-18.

The reporting files it under the persona Jikun Liao, alongside 23 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.

email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2026-08-30 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

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/jikun-liao — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Jikun Liao / James Lee / Justin Lim / The OG / altp! / altpl / jikun / jliao / peezenut / altbee / zerobit417 / liaojikunwork / JL” · pulled 2026-09-09
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 69 commits signed peezenut@gmail.com, an address the lazarus.group registry publishes for this persona, to github.com/peezenut, account id 79215347, created on 17 February 2021, with 3 public repositories. GitHub attributes 1 commit signed james117lee@gmail.com, an address the lazarus.group registry publishes for this persona, to github.com/up-sven, account id 98956519, created on 3 February 2022, with no public repositories.
github.com/up-sven — Chollima Hunter · under “Jikun Liao” · pulled 2026-09-24
Nearby text:

…![](./jikun-liao.png) #### Jikun Liao - "James Lee" - Q12024, 2024, [Zach's List](https://x.com/zachxbt/status/1824047425822310580) - james117lee@gmail.com - github.com/jnuon • [Archive](https://archive.ph/rf3TU) - 0xb9451049310053b29e5dd98c54bff37a5e38819c -…
DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Jikun Liao - "James Lee"” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

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