https://github.com/crypdev007

https://github.com/crypdev007 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 Ming Cheng, alongside 13 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 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 63 commits signed hodlwarden@gmail.com, an address the lazarus.group registry publishes for this persona, to github.com/crypdev007, account id 37245718, created on 10 March 2018, display name crypdev007, with 74 public repositories.
    github.com/crypdev007 — Chollima Hunter · under “Ming Cheng” · pulled 2026-09-24

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Account analysis

Account created2018-03-10
Repositories33 original, 41 forked
History older than the account0 repositories
Commits copied into others' repositories0
Commit identities0 addresses, 0 names

From gh-fake-analyzer 1.0.2, the Ketman Project's GitHub analysis tool, run on 2026-10-01. 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: Ming Cheng

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 8 of 13 are shown.

All 13 on the Ming Cheng page

Cited by the same report: github.com/crypdev007

Chollima Hunter lists 1 other indicator in 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.