https://github.com/mbenz12

https://github.com/mbenz12 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 meow mfer (@meow_mfer). The report is dated 2026-04-17.

The reporting files it under the persona MBenz12, alongside 5 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 RESEARCHER POST live checked 2026-09-30

First seen 2026-04-17 · last seen 2026-04-17

Source

  • A fourteen-post thread on the accounts that worked on Tokamak Network's bridge front end, marketplace and subgraph between November 2023 and February 2025, read as a single cell from the primary account's following list, commit-email forensics, renamed and deleted handles, and account-creation dates clustered within days of each other. Every value here is stated in the thread; post thirteen is the researcher's own address map for the cell. Post nine: created 7 March 2022 with a GitHub id consecutive to JamesH0807's, about three minutes apart, which the researcher reads as batch creation from one session.
    x.com/meow_mfer/status/2045108605028831330 — meow mfer (@meow_mfer) · under “MBenz12” · published 2026-04-17 · pulled 2026-08-30

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Account analysis

Account created2022-03-07
Repositories84 original, 2 forked
History older than the account0 repositories
Commits copied into others' repositories0
Commit identities1 address, 9 names; up to 9 names on one address; up to 2 addresses under one name

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Follows these indexed accounts

Followed by these indexed accounts

From gh-fake-analyzer 1.0.2, the Ketman Project's GitHub analysis tool, run on 2026-10-06. 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: MBenz12

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona.

Cited by the same report: x.com/meow_mfer/status/2045108605028831330

meow mfer (@meow_mfer) lists 1 other indicator in this source.

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