Aiden Mori

Also reported as: Lin ElliotRoy Lee

A fabricated professional identity used in the DPRK remote IT-worker scheme. Most of what follows is transcribed from the cited post, in which a named researcher attributes these accounts to a single operator, Aiden Mori. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.

The remainder was read by this site from the account itself and is cited to the page and date it was read.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2025-07-05 · last reported 2026-09-29

LinkedIn accounts

Identifiers reported alongside

16 indicators the sources below record for this operator, each with its sources.

IndicatorTypeAccount status
Aiden Mori alias —
Lin Elliot alias —
Roy Lee alias —
aidenworks.difines.io domain —
aiden77mori@gmail.com email address —
codeknight0707@gmail.com email address —
danieltran124@outlook.com email address —
danillppiont106@gmail.com email address —
smartfox1203@gmail.com email address —
https://freelancer.com/u/smartfox1203 freelancer account not checked
https://github.com/0xdanieltran github profile live checked 2026-09-30
https://github.com/aiden77mori github profile removed checked 2026-09-02
https://gitlab.com/codeknight0707 gitlab account live checked 2026-11-08
https://gitlab.com/smartfox1203 gitlab account not checked
https://huggingface.co/aiden77mori huggingface account live checked 2026-11-08
https://x.com/0xdanieltran106 x account not checked

Aiden Mori

alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2025-07-05 · last seen 2026-09-29

Sources

  • The post states the operator runs a project called DIFINES and that his initials may be KWH or CCI, and cites an analysis of IT-worker logs published by chollima-group.io alongside the accounts.
    x.com/Narcass3/status/1941534049773981835 — Narcass3 (@Narcass3) · under “Aiden Mori” · published 2025-07-05 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • Found on 17 September 2026 by asking Hugging Face whether an account exists under aiden77mori, one of the logins the registry already holds for this operator, and read from the profile cited. The account states a display name of Aiden Mori. The display name is kept here rather than as an alias, because it restates the handle, describes the work, or repeats what this operator is already called. The handle 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.
    huggingface.co/aiden77mori — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori” · pulled 2026-09-17
  • Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- codeknight0707 -- 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 a display name of Lin Elliot. 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/codeknight0707 — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori / Lin Elliot” · pulled 2026-09-18
  • Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- smartfox1203 -- 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 a display name of Roy Lee. 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/smartfox1203 — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori / Roy Lee” · pulled 2026-09-18
  • Found on 18 September 2026 by putting smartfox1203, the GitLab login the index already holds for this persona, to Maigret's username search and then asking Freelancer's public user endpoint, which answers with the account record and, for a name that does not exist, with nothing. Freelancer returns the account with the display name Closed User and a registration date of 15 May 2022: an account existed under the handle and has since been closed, which is recorded here because a closed account is still a registration, and the date is the one fact it states. The handle 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.
    www.freelancer.com/u/smartfox1203 — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori” · pulled 2026-09-18
  • Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for every personal address this index transcribes from researchers' posts, and keeping the accounts whose own commits are signed with one. GitHub mints a noreply address from an account's immutable numeric id, in the form id+handle@users.noreply.github.com, so the former handles below are a matter of record. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/0xdanieltran is account id 89995315, created on 2 September 2021, with 109 public repositories. Its noreply addresses name the handles aiden77mori and hellovlady, so it is the account Narcass3 names as github.com/aiden77mori under Aiden Mori, renamed; hellovlady is also a handle this index carries from other reporting, and both now return not found. Its repositories hold 82 commits signed aiden77mori@gmail.com and 3 signed smartfox1203@gmail.com, both addresses the researcher gives for the persona; its own commits are signed danillppiont106@gmail.com (83 of 100) and danieltran124@outlook.com (10), recorded here as the account's own.
    github.com/0xdanieltran — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori” · pulled 2026-09-24
  • Found on 29 September 2026 by searching GitHub's code for the handles this site already holds for the persona (0xdanieltran, aiden77mori) and reading the files that name them: contact blocks, profile READMEs and portfolio data in the persona's own repositories or in repositories that credit its accounts. Each value is cited to the file it was read from. Values in copied templates, client team pages and test data are not carried.
    github.com/0xdanieltran/0xdanieltran/blob/d7fc09f7c421737dd66df73a6bd746c8a3a0bda1/README.md — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori” · published 2021-11-19 · pulled 2026-09-29

Lin Elliot

alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED

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 -- codeknight0707 -- 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 a display name of Lin Elliot. 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/codeknight0707 — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori / Lin Elliot” · pulled 2026-09-18

Roy Lee

alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED

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 -- smartfox1203 -- 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 a display name of Roy Lee. 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/smartfox1203 — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori / Roy Lee” · pulled 2026-09-18

aidenworks.difines.io

domain IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-07-05 · last seen 2025-07-05

Source

  • The post states the operator runs a project called DIFINES and that his initials may be KWH or CCI, and cites an analysis of IT-worker logs published by chollima-group.io alongside the accounts.
    x.com/Narcass3/status/1941534049773981835 — Narcass3 (@Narcass3) · under “Aiden Mori” · published 2025-07-05 · pulled 2026-08-30

aiden77mori@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2025-07-05 · last seen 2026-09-24

Sources

  • The post states the operator runs a project called DIFINES and that his initials may be KWH or CCI, and cites an analysis of IT-worker logs published by chollima-group.io alongside the accounts.
    x.com/Narcass3/status/1941534049773981835 — Narcass3 (@Narcass3) · under “Aiden Mori” · published 2025-07-05 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for every personal address this index transcribes from researchers' posts, and keeping the accounts whose own commits are signed with one. GitHub mints a noreply address from an account's immutable numeric id, in the form id+handle@users.noreply.github.com, so the former handles below are a matter of record. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/0xdanieltran is account id 89995315, created on 2 September 2021, with 109 public repositories. Its noreply addresses name the handles aiden77mori and hellovlady, so it is the account Narcass3 names as github.com/aiden77mori under Aiden Mori, renamed; hellovlady is also a handle this index carries from other reporting, and both now return not found. Its repositories hold 82 commits signed aiden77mori@gmail.com and 3 signed smartfox1203@gmail.com, both addresses the researcher gives for the persona; its own commits are signed danillppiont106@gmail.com (83 of 100) and danieltran124@outlook.com (10), recorded here as the account's own.
    github.com/0xdanieltran — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori” · pulled 2026-09-24

codeknight0707@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE

First seen 2024-10-01 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • The post states the operator runs a project called DIFINES and that his initials may be KWH or CCI, and cites an analysis of IT-worker logs published by chollima-group.io alongside the accounts.
    x.com/Narcass3/status/1941534049773981835 — Narcass3 (@Narcass3) · under “Aiden Mori” · published 2025-07-05 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • Nearby text:

    …Here's a small sample: masterdev1027@gmail.com fulldev317@gmail.com codeknight0707@gmail.com seniordev9726@outlook.com dreamcomes0704@gmail.com topdev1228@protonmail.com helios0912@outlook.com smartfox1203@gmail.com "star",…
    Sample Blog Post | Chollima Group — Chollima Group · under “Autofill Data:” · published 2024-10-01 · pulled 2026-10-18
  • Nearby text:

    …masterdev1027 - seniordev9726 - slark0704 - smartfox1203 - topdev1228 - toshyodev - Zhang-777 - smartfox1203@gmail.com - codeknight0707@gmail.com - seniordev9726@outlook.com - anydev1103@gmail.com - fulldev114@outlook.com - boriszhang1021@gmail.com - topdev1228@protonmail.com -…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Analysis of DPRK IT Worker Logs” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

danieltran124@outlook.com

email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2026-09-24 · last seen 2026-09-24

Source

  • Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for every personal address this index transcribes from researchers' posts, and keeping the accounts whose own commits are signed with one. GitHub mints a noreply address from an account's immutable numeric id, in the form id+handle@users.noreply.github.com, so the former handles below are a matter of record. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/0xdanieltran is account id 89995315, created on 2 September 2021, with 109 public repositories. Its noreply addresses name the handles aiden77mori and hellovlady, so it is the account Narcass3 names as github.com/aiden77mori under Aiden Mori, renamed; hellovlady is also a handle this index carries from other reporting, and both now return not found. Its repositories hold 82 commits signed aiden77mori@gmail.com and 3 signed smartfox1203@gmail.com, both addresses the researcher gives for the persona; its own commits are signed danillppiont106@gmail.com (83 of 100) and danieltran124@outlook.com (10), recorded here as the account's own.
    github.com/0xdanieltran — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori” · pulled 2026-09-24

danillppiont106@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2026-09-24 · last seen 2026-09-24

Source

  • Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for every personal address this index transcribes from researchers' posts, and keeping the accounts whose own commits are signed with one. GitHub mints a noreply address from an account's immutable numeric id, in the form id+handle@users.noreply.github.com, so the former handles below are a matter of record. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/0xdanieltran is account id 89995315, created on 2 September 2021, with 109 public repositories. Its noreply addresses name the handles aiden77mori and hellovlady, so it is the account Narcass3 names as github.com/aiden77mori under Aiden Mori, renamed; hellovlady is also a handle this index carries from other reporting, and both now return not found. Its repositories hold 82 commits signed aiden77mori@gmail.com and 3 signed smartfox1203@gmail.com, both addresses the researcher gives for the persona; its own commits are signed danillppiont106@gmail.com (83 of 100) and danieltran124@outlook.com (10), recorded here as the account's own.
    github.com/0xdanieltran — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori” · pulled 2026-09-24

smartfox1203@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2024-10-01 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • The post states the operator runs a project called DIFINES and that his initials may be KWH or CCI, and cites an analysis of IT-worker logs published by chollima-group.io alongside the accounts.
    x.com/Narcass3/status/1941534049773981835 — Narcass3 (@Narcass3) · under “Aiden Mori” · published 2025-07-05 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for every personal address this index transcribes from researchers' posts, and keeping the accounts whose own commits are signed with one. GitHub mints a noreply address from an account's immutable numeric id, in the form id+handle@users.noreply.github.com, so the former handles below are a matter of record. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/0xdanieltran is account id 89995315, created on 2 September 2021, with 109 public repositories. Its noreply addresses name the handles aiden77mori and hellovlady, so it is the account Narcass3 names as github.com/aiden77mori under Aiden Mori, renamed; hellovlady is also a handle this index carries from other reporting, and both now return not found. Its repositories hold 82 commits signed aiden77mori@gmail.com and 3 signed smartfox1203@gmail.com, both addresses the researcher gives for the persona; its own commits are signed danillppiont106@gmail.com (83 of 100) and danieltran124@outlook.com (10), recorded here as the account's own.
    github.com/0xdanieltran — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori” · pulled 2026-09-24
  • Nearby text:

    …v317@gmail.com codeknight0707@gmail.com seniordev9726@outlook.com dreamcomes0704@gmail.com topdev1228@protonmail.com helios0912@outlook.com smartfox1203@gmail.com "star", "dev", "pro", "senior", and "coder" are typical keywords seen in the emails, usually followed by 3 or 4 digits. Personas did…
    Sample Blog Post | Chollima Group — Chollima Group · under “Autofill Data:” · published 2024-10-01 · pulled 2026-10-18
  • Nearby text:

    …helios9116 - hellovlady - masterdev1027 - seniordev9726 - slark0704 - smartfox1203 - topdev1228 - toshyodev - Zhang-777 - smartfox1203@gmail.com - codeknight0707@gmail.com - seniordev9726@outlook.com - anydev1103@gmail.com - fulldev114@outlook.com - boriszhang1021@gmail.com -…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Analysis of DPRK IT Worker Logs” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

https://freelancer.com/u/smartfox1203

freelancer account IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • Found on 18 September 2026 by putting smartfox1203, the GitLab login the index already holds for this persona, to Maigret's username search and then asking Freelancer's public user endpoint, which answers with the account record and, for a name that does not exist, with nothing. Freelancer returns the account with the display name Closed User and a registration date of 15 May 2022: an account existed under the handle and has since been closed, which is recorded here because a closed account is still a registration, and the date is the one fact it states. The handle 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.
    www.freelancer.com/u/smartfox1203 — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori” · pulled 2026-09-18

https://github.com/0xdanieltran

github profile IT Worker Fraud CURATED live checked 2026-09-30

First seen 2026-09-24 · last seen 2026-09-24

Source

  • Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for every personal address this index transcribes from researchers' posts, and keeping the accounts whose own commits are signed with one. GitHub mints a noreply address from an account's immutable numeric id, in the form id+handle@users.noreply.github.com, so the former handles below are a matter of record. Counts of an account's own commits are over the 100 that GitHub's search returns for it. github.com/0xdanieltran is account id 89995315, created on 2 September 2021, with 109 public repositories. Its noreply addresses name the handles aiden77mori and hellovlady, so it is the account Narcass3 names as github.com/aiden77mori under Aiden Mori, renamed; hellovlady is also a handle this index carries from other reporting, and both now return not found. Its repositories hold 82 commits signed aiden77mori@gmail.com and 3 signed smartfox1203@gmail.com, both addresses the researcher gives for the persona; its own commits are signed danillppiont106@gmail.com (83 of 100) and danieltran124@outlook.com (10), recorded here as the account's own.
    github.com/0xdanieltran — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori” · pulled 2026-09-24

https://github.com/aiden77mori

github profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST removed checked 2026-09-02

First seen 2025-07-05 · last seen 2025-07-05

Source

  • The post states the operator runs a project called DIFINES and that his initials may be KWH or CCI, and cites an analysis of IT-worker logs published by chollima-group.io alongside the accounts.
    x.com/Narcass3/status/1941534049773981835 — Narcass3 (@Narcass3) · under “Aiden Mori” · published 2025-07-05 · pulled 2026-08-30

https://gitlab.com/codeknight0707

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 -- codeknight0707 -- 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 a display name of Lin Elliot. 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/codeknight0707 — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori / Lin Elliot” · pulled 2026-09-18

https://gitlab.com/smartfox1203

gitlab account IT Worker Fraud CURATED

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 -- smartfox1203 -- 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 a display name of Roy Lee. 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/smartfox1203 — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori / Roy Lee” · pulled 2026-09-18

https://huggingface.co/aiden77mori

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

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • Found on 17 September 2026 by asking Hugging Face whether an account exists under aiden77mori, one of the logins the registry already holds for this operator, and read from the profile cited. The account states a display name of Aiden Mori. The display name is kept here rather than as an alias, because it restates the handle, describes the work, or repeats what this operator is already called. The handle 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.
    huggingface.co/aiden77mori — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori” · pulled 2026-09-17

https://x.com/0xdanieltran106

x account IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2026-09-29 · last seen 2026-09-29

Source

  • Found on 29 September 2026 by searching GitHub's code for the handles this site already holds for the persona (0xdanieltran, aiden77mori) and reading the files that name them: contact blocks, profile READMEs and portfolio data in the persona's own repositories or in repositories that credit its accounts. Each value is cited to the file it was read from. Values in copied templates, client team pages and test data are not carried.
    github.com/0xdanieltran/0xdanieltran/blob/d7fc09f7c421737dd66df73a6bd746c8a3a0bda1/README.md — Chollima Hunter · under “Aiden Mori” · published 2021-11-19 · pulled 2026-09-29

Sources

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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. Aiden Mori as the name of the operator is the cited researcher’s assertion, repeated here as their claim.