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169.38.98.22

169.38.98.22 is an IP address that 2 published sources report in connection with Contagious Interview and IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Recorded Future and Spur. The earliest of those reports is dated 2024-12-19 and the most recent 2026-10-18.

ip address Contagious InterviewIT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE

First seen 2024-12-19 · last seen 2026-10-18

Network

Looked up 2026-09-21 at ip-api.com. This address is on Spur’s list of Astrill VPN exits. It names the VPN, not the user.

Sources

• …142.214.202.2 155.94.199.59 158.255.76.195 162.251.62.70 162.251.70.66 166.0.190.170 167.160.181.2 167.88.61.117 167.88.61.148 169.38.75.87 169.38.98.22 170.178.177.178 172.96.141.172 173.232.230.137 173.254.200.134 178.159.7.34 178.175.128.98 185.65.205.130 185.135.76.89 185.135.76.115 185.…

  PurpleBravo’s Targeting of the IT Software Supply Chain — Recorded Future · under “Appendix C: Astrill VPN Nodes” · published 2026-01-21 · pulled 2026-09-12

• These are the exit addresses of a commercial VPN service with customers everywhere. An address on this list says that a connection came through Astrill, which DPRK IT workers are documented to favour; it does not say who was behind the connection, and the great majority of traffic through these exits is ordinary customers. Treat a match as a reason to look at the account behind it, not as evidence about the person. The list is a snapshot of the addresses active on 19 December 2024; VPN exits are reassigned over time, so an address here may since have been returned to its hosting provider and given to someone else. The list is Spur's and is carried here as published.

  Astrill VPN and DPRK Remote Worker Fraud — Spur · published 2024-12-19 · pulled 2026-10-26

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