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https://github.com/bucketsquadfan

https://github.com/bucketsquadfan is a GitHub account that 3 published sources report in connection with Contagious Interview activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Chollima Hunter. The earliest of those reports is dated 2025-04-04 and the most recent 2026-09-28.

github profile Contagious Interview CURATED live checked 2026-09-30

First seen 2025-04-04 · last seen 2026-09-28

Sources

  • Found on 28 September 2026 by asking GitHub's commit search, for each of the addresses this index holds from Socket's reporting, which account its commits are credited to. GitHub credits a commit to the account that has registered the author address, so each account below owns the address shown; the count is the commits credited in the search's first page. BucketSquadFan holds alexandercruciata11@gmail.com (64); crimson1023 holds c258789456@gmail.com (54); crouchtomy626 holds crouchtomy@gmail.com (11). Where the address came from a report, the report is https://socket.dev/blog/contagious-interview-campaign-escalates-67-malicious-npm-packages https://socket.dev/blog/lazarus-expands-malicious-npm-campaign-11-new-packages-add-malware-loaders-and-bitbucket. An account was left out where the address may belong to a real person rather than the operator: a stolen-CV listing, a mirrored contributor's identity, a copied repository's upstream author, or an account with a long, verifiable history of its own.
    github.com/BucketSquadFan — Chollima Hunter · under “GitHub accounts credited with commits from Socket addresses (Contagious Interview)” · pulled 2026-09-28
  • Found on 28 September 2026 by asking GitHub's commit search, for each of the addresses this index holds from Socket's reporting, which account its commits are credited to. GitHub credits a commit to the account that has registered the author address, so each account below owns the address shown; the count is the commits credited in the search's first page. BucketSquadFan holds alexandercruciata11@gmail.com (64); crimson1023 holds c258789456@gmail.com (54); crouchtomy626 holds crouchtomy@gmail.com (11). Where the address came from a report, the report is https://socket.dev/blog/contagious-interview-campaign-escalates-67-malicious-npm-packages https://socket.dev/blog/lazarus-expands-malicious-npm-campaign-11-new-packages-add-malware-loaders-and-bitbucket. An account was left out where the address may belong to a real person rather than the operator: a stolen-CV listing, a mirrored contributor's identity, a copied repository's upstream author, or an account with a long, verifiable history of its own.
    socket.dev/blog/contagious-interview-campaign-escalates-67-malicious-npm-packages — Chollima Hunter · under “GitHub accounts credited with commits from Socket addresses (Contagious Interview)” · published 2025-07-14 · pulled 2026-09-28
  • Found on 28 September 2026 by asking GitHub's commit search, for each of the addresses this index holds from Socket's reporting, which account its commits are credited to. GitHub credits a commit to the account that has registered the author address, so each account below owns the address shown; the count is the commits credited in the search's first page. BucketSquadFan holds alexandercruciata11@gmail.com (64); crimson1023 holds c258789456@gmail.com (54); crouchtomy626 holds crouchtomy@gmail.com (11). Where the address came from a report, the report is https://socket.dev/blog/contagious-interview-campaign-escalates-67-malicious-npm-packages https://socket.dev/blog/lazarus-expands-malicious-npm-campaign-11-new-packages-add-malware-loaders-and-bitbucket. An account was left out where the address may belong to a real person rather than the operator: a stolen-CV listing, a mirrored contributor's identity, a copied repository's upstream author, or an account with a long, verifiable history of its own.
    socket.dev/blog/lazarus-expands-malicious-npm-campaign-11-new-packages-add-malware-loaders-and-bitbucket — Chollima Hunter · under “GitHub accounts credited with commits from Socket addresses (Contagious Interview)” · published 2025-04-04 · pulled 2026-09-28

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Account analysis

Account created2024-07-03
Repositories7 original, 5 forked
History older than the account2 repositories: BucketSquadFan/codex-slackbot (first commit 2015-04-06), BucketSquadFan/PNL_bot (first commit 2024-05-23)
Commits copied into others' repositories0
Commit identities1 address, 3 names; up to 3 names on one address

Commit addresses this index holds

From gh-fake-analyzer 1.0.2, the Ketman Project's GitHub analysis tool, run on 2026-10-30. 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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Cited by the same report: socket.dev/blog/contagious-interview-campaign-escalates-67-malicious-npm-packages

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Cited by the same report: socket.dev/blog/lazarus-expands-malicious-npm-campaign-11-new-packages-add-malware-loaders-and-bitbucket

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