70.39.70.196

70.39.70.196 is an IP address that 2 published sources report in connection with Lazarus Group, Contagious Interview and IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Security Scorecard and Spur. The earliest of those reports is dated 2024-12-19 and the most recent 2025-01-29.

ip address Lazarus GroupContagious InterviewIT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE

First seen 2024-12-19 · last seen 2025-01-29

Network

KindAstrill VPN exit address
NetworkSharktech
Announced byAS46844 Sharktech
CountryUnited States
Flagshosting 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

  • …VPN Obfuscation : These IPs connected to Astrill VPN endpoints , including 70.39.70.196 , 204.188.233.68 , 45.58.143.196 , 70.39.70.197 , and 199.115.99.62 , to hide their true origin.…
    Operation Phantom Circuit: North Korea's Global Data Exfiltration Campaign — Security Scorecard · under “The Evidence Chain” · published 2025-01-29 · 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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Cited by the same report: Operation Phantom Circuit: North Korea's Global Data Exfiltration Campaign

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Cited by the same report: Astrill VPN and DPRK Remote Worker Fraud

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Disclaimer An entry here is not proof of DPRK affiliation or wrongdoing. A listed name, account or address may belong to an uninvolved person, so each entry is a lead to verify independently. What inclusion means. See the sourcing methodology.