https://gitlab.com/ernestpapyan

https://gitlab.com/ernestpapyan is a GitLab 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 reporting files it under the persona Marcin Iwanski, alongside 48 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.

gitlab account IT Worker Fraud CURATED live checked 2026-11-08

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- ernestpapyan -- and asking GitLab whether an account exists under it. The address is on a consumer mail host, where the local part is a login the holder chose rather than one an employer assigned; handles taken from company addresses were excluded from this pass for that reason. The account states no display name but the handle itself. The login is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and a display name on a profile is a name the account presents, not an identification.
    gitlab.com/ernestpapyan — Chollima Hunter · under “Marcin Iwanski” · pulled 2026-09-18

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Related indicators

Same persona record: Marcin Iwanski

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 12 of 48 are shown.

All 48 on the Marcin Iwanski page

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