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https://github.com/merkleengineer

https://github.com/merkleengineer 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 Khanh Nguyen, alongside 4 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

live checked 2026-09-30

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

Source

• Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for every personal address the lazarus.group registry and the ZEUS-DEV-919 working document give for a persona, and keeping the accounts whose own commits are signed with one. GitHub mints a noreply address from an account's immutable numeric id, in the form id+handle@users.noreply.github.com, so former handles below are a matter of record. github.com/MerkleEngineer is account id 175926331, created on 18 July 2024, with the bio Seasoned Blockchain & Web Developer with 10 years of experience. GitHub attributes 824 commits to it; of the 100 its search returns, 99 are signed dev.tianlong33@gmail.com and one christinejurich17@gmail.com, both addresses lazarus.group gives for Khanh Nguyen, and they are made under the author name DevCrown333, the GitHub handle the registry gives for the persona, which now returns not found. Five of its eight repositories were created on the day the account was and committed that day. Its pooltogether-pool-contracts, created on 21 August 2024, carries 221 commits dated from September 2020 onward re-signed as DevCrown333, an open-source project's history presented as the account's own.

  github.com/MerkleEngineer — Chollima Hunter · under “Khanh Nguyen” · pulled 2026-09-24

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Account analysis

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: Khanh Nguyen

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 3 of 4 are shown.

• christinejurich17@gmail.com email address
• devtianlong33@gmail.com email address
• https://github.com/devcrown333 GitHub account

All 4 on the Khanh Nguyen page

Cited by the same report: github.com/MerkleEngineer

Chollima Hunter lists 3 other indicators in this source. 1 are shown, chosen across types.

• Khanh Nguyen alias

All 4 indicators from this source