`https://github.com/paladin-120`

https://github.com/paladin-120 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 Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) 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 Kim Kwang Jin, alongside 6 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 MATCHED IN SOURCE live checked 2026-08-30

Listed as paladin-120

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

live checked 2026-08-30

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

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/pemba-sherpa — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Kim Kwang Jin / Pemba Sherpa / Pemba Gulu / paladin-120” · pulled 2026-09-09
Nearby text:

…paladin-120 - pemba.sherpa5232 - pemba.gelu5232 - pemba.sherpa5232@gmail.com - pemba.gelu5232@gmail.com - github.com/paladin-120 • [Archive](https://archive.ph/nVIz9) - 0xfb5d591e8216f5d0964286f09b1f61114c16aab0 - https://archive.ph/EM0z1 -…
DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Pemba Sherpa / Pemba Gulu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

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Account analysis

Account created	2015-01-31
Repositories	5 original, 1 forked
History older than the account	0 repositories
Commits copied into others' repositories	0
Commit identities	1 address, 2 names; up to 2 names on one address

From gh-fake-analyzer 1.0.2, the Ketman Project's GitHub analysis tool, run on 2026-10-07. 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: Kim Kwang Jin

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 5 of 6 are shown.

All 6 on the Kim Kwang Jin page

Cited by the same report: lazarus.group/team/pemba-sherpa

Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) lists 6 other indicators in this source. 1 are shown, chosen across types.

All 7 indicators from this source

Cited by the same report: DPRK IT Workers

tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) lists 854 other indicators in this source. 6 are shown, chosen across types.

All 855 indicators from this source