bitcoin-main-lib
bitcoin-main-lib is an npm package
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 The Hacker News.
The report is dated 2026-01-08.
The reporting files it under the persona Evan Jones, alongside 9 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.
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The post presents this identity as a friend of Aiden Mori. Three later citations fill the entry out. The commit comment thread on this account's own Ari-FE-Challenge repository is the operator writing in his own words: he gives supertalented730@gmail.com as his contact, describes himself as having built decentralised finance projects, automated market makers, a token launch platform, a sniping bot and a mixer, and names a token launch platform he says he worked on as a Solidity developer. The second commit is git metadata rather than prose and carries the same address as its author field, which is what ties the account to it without anyone having to take the persona's word for it; its merge message also records an SSH host alias named for the identity. The three npm packages are the same account publishing malware: reporting on NodeCordRAT names bitcoin-main-lib, bitcoin-lib-js and bip40 as uploaded by wenmoonx and taken down in November 2025. They are recorded as package indicators rather than held under the polarity rule because these are packages the operator published, not legitimate ones that were compromised, so the bare name identifies the threat rather than a victim. The post also states that the identity was itself targeted by the Marko Polo crew through a GitHub account that pushed malware. That account belongs to the party attacking this persona rather than to a DPRK operator, so it is not recorded as an indicator here; the approach it made is quoted in the held-back list, because the exchange is the clearest evidence of which direction the lure was running.
thehackernews.com/2026/01/researchers-uncover-nodecordrat-hidden.html — The Hacker News
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