`103.214.44.138`

103.214.44.138 is an IP address that 4 published sources report in connection with IT Worker Fraud and Contagious Interview activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Sekoia.io Threat Detection & Research / Kudelski Security, Kudelski Security Research, Recorded Future and Spur. The earliest of those reports is dated 2024-12-19 and the most recent 2026-10-18.

ip address IT Worker Fraud Contagious Interview MATCHED IN SOURCE

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

Network

Kind	Astrill VPN exit address
Network	Clouvider Limited (Clouvider HB)
Announced by	AS62240 Clouvider
Country	United Kingdom
Flags	hosting range, known proxy or VPN

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

…source Source 23.237.102.130 37.120.154.98 38.75.137.97 45.86.208.162 50.7.159.34 91.239.130.102 103.214.44.138 167.88.61.117 185.135.76.89 188.43.33.252 211.21.6.181 Contagious Interview (Recorded Future) Recorded Future…
Beyond Lazarus: How North Korea Organizes Its Cyber Operations — Sekoia.io Threat Detection & Research / Kudelski Security · under “Annex 2 - Overlap between fake IT workers and DPRK offensive campaigns” · published 2026-09-07 · pulled 2026-09-09
…the cluster Source 23.237.102.130 37.120.154.98 38.75.137.97 45.86.208.162 50.7.159.34 91.239.130.102 103.214.44.138 167.88.61.117 185.135.76.89 188.43.33.252 211.211.6.181 Contagious Interview (Recorded future) https://…
Kudelski Security Research — Kudelski Security Research · under “Annexes” · published 2025-03-05 · pulled 2026-09-10
…16 103.50.33.16 103.111.113.26 103.125.234.62 103.125.234.107 103.125.234.161 103.125.234.210 103.130.145.210 103.157.217.145 103.172.26.58 103.214.44.138 104.168.14.206 104.223.63.2 104.223.87.12 104.250.131.79 104.250.148.58 107.150.38.250 107.167.25.130 107.167.244.42 107.172.97.67 108.181.…
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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