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https://github.com/ssmith542

https://github.com/ssmith542 is a GitHub account that one published source reports in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Chollima Hunter. The report is dated 2026-09-24.

The reporting files it under the persona Danny Jin, alongside 8 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.

github profile IT Worker Fraud CURATED live checked 2026-09-30

First seen 2026-09-24 · last seen 2026-09-24

Source

  • Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for every personal address the lazarus.group registry and the ZEUS-DEV-919 working document give for a persona, and keeping the accounts whose own commits are signed with one. GitHub mints a noreply address from an account's immutable numeric id, in the form id+handle@users.noreply.github.com, so former handles below are a matter of record. github.com/ssmith542 is account id 48925763, created on 25 March 2019. Of the 100 commits GitHub's search returns for it, 31 are signed dannyjin117@gmail.com and 6 as5179000@gmail.com, and 56 are signed with its own noreply address under the former handles dansofter and webninja1992; a further six commits in its repositories are signed webninja16@gmail.com. lazarus.group gives all three of those mailboxes for Danny Jin. The commits carry the author names Danny, danny-biztree, topdev17 and dansofter, and are made on the day each repository is created.
    github.com/ssmith542 — Chollima Hunter · under “Danny Jin” · pulled 2026-09-24

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Account analysis

Account created2019-03-25
Repositories35 original, 18 forked
History older than the account0 repositories
Commits copied into others' repositories0
Commit identities4 addresses, 11 names; up to 6 names on one address; up to 2 addresses under one name

Commit addresses this index holds

From gh-fake-analyzer 1.0.2, the Ketman Project's GitHub analysis tool, run on 2026-10-11. 1 other commit address is held for review rather than listed. These are signals: backdated history and several commit identities are common among ordinary developers too, and an account that shows none of them is not thereby cleared.

Related indicators

Same persona record: Danny Jin

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 7 of 8 are shown.

All 8 on the Danny Jin page

Cited by the same report: github.com/ssmith542

Chollima Hunter lists 4 other indicators in this source. 1 are shown, chosen across types.

All 5 indicators from this source

Disclaimer An entry here is not proof of DPRK affiliation or wrongdoing. A listed name, account or address may belong to an uninvolved person, so each entry is a lead to verify independently. What inclusion means. See the sourcing methodology.