`https://github.com/capitalist42`

https://github.com/capitalist42 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 Coinmonks. The report is dated 2025-07-22.

github profile IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE live checked 2026-09-18

Listed as capitalist42

First seen 2025-07-22 · last seen 2025-07-22

live checked 2026-09-18

The image is the avatar this account displays, not evidence of who operates it.

Source

…After checking the followers of ororopickpocket, there are some accounts, for example: https://github.com/capitalist42 https://github.com/capitalist42 After checking the followers of capitalist42, we can see some accounts we already identified: Press enter or click to view image in…
Summary of Findings on Suspicious GitHub Activity Linked to DPRK IT Workers — Coinmonks · under “Other example based on the same investigation by Zach, is the user Naoki Murano:” · published 2025-07-22 · pulled 2026-09-12

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Account analysis

Account created	2020-07-12
Repositories	5 original, 157 forked
History older than the account	0 repositories
Commits copied into others' repositories	0
Commit identities	1 address, 1 name; up to 2 addresses under one name

Follows these indexed accounts

From gh-fake-analyzer 1.0.2, the Ketman Project's GitHub analysis tool, run on 2026-10-31. 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.

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