`https://github.com/wpickachu`

https://github.com/wpickachu is a GitHub account that 2 published sources report in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from SOTAHire and Chollima Hunter. The earliest of those reports is dated 2026-08-04 and the most recent 2026-09-24.

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

Listed under Mauro Liu, Tyler Knapp.

First seen 2026-08-04 · last seen 2026-09-24

live checked 2026-09-30

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

Sources

SOTAHire's article reports that Consensys, the company behind MetaMask, confirmed it had unknowingly engaged a contractor under the identity Tyler Knapp through a third-party staffing firm, who worked on MetaMask code from 9 March to April 2026 before the contractor's ties to the DPRK IT-worker network were found. The article ties that contractor to the GitHub account imyugioh, display name Yu-Gi-Oh!, which it traces to account id 54774811 and to the earlier logins raptor1001, ethlocker, burndai and 0xlocker, and it lists the further personas Ryan Choi, Stephen Gooden, Andrian Fadhilla and the new Ryota Suzuki with their accounts and addresses, all transcribed here. The article reports the Ryan Choi LinkedIn account and Calendly link as dead; the Calendly link is carried for the record. The Ryota Suzuki LinkedIn account was live when checked on 24 September 2026. The lazarus.group registry, which this index already holds, files blueraptor1001@gmail.com and choi.link227@gmail.com under Mauro Liu, and Raden Wilford's article, filed under that name, covers the same identity.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/metamask-hired-north-korean-operative-who-had-access-harmony-evnnc/ — SOTAHire · under “Tyler Knapp / Ryota Suzuki / Ryan Choi / Stephen Gooden / Andrian Fadhilla / Brandon Curtis” · published 2026-08-04 · pulled 2026-09-24
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 100 commits signed choi.link227@gmail.com, an address the lazarus.group registry publishes for this persona, to github.com/wpickachu, account id 50459820, created on 9 May 2019, display name It's me!, with 86 public repositories.
github.com/wpickachu — Chollima Hunter · under “Mauro Liu” · pulled 2026-09-24

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Account analysis

Account created	2019-05-09
Repositories	22 original, 64 forked
History older than the account	0 repositories
Commits copied into others' repositories	0
Commit identities	1 address, 5 names; up to 4 names on one address; up to 2 addresses under one name

From gh-fake-analyzer 1.0.2, the Ketman Project's GitHub analysis tool, run on 2026-10-12. 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: Mauro Liu

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 4 of 38 are shown.

All 38 on the Mauro Liu page

Same persona record: Tyler Knapp

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 4 of 30 are shown.

All 30 on the Tyler Knapp page

Cited by the same report: www.linkedin.com/pulse/metamask-hired-north-korean-operative-who-had-access-harmony-evnnc/

SOTAHire lists 28 other indicators in this source. 3 are shown, chosen across types.

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Cited by the same report: github.com/wpickachu

Chollima Hunter lists 2 other indicators in this source. 1 are shown, chosen across types.

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