Cheng Lin
Also reported as: Patrick LinZhu Tai
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, Cheng Lin. 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.
The photograph the researcher's chart attaches to this identity, labelled Zhu Tai. It may be a stock image, a generated face or a picture of an uninvolved person; the chart does not say where it was taken from. The chart files it under Cheng Lin.
Identifiers attributed to this persona
10 indicators the sources below record for this operator, each with its sources.
| Indicator | Type | Account status |
|---|---|---|
Cheng Lin |
alias | |
Patrick Lin |
alias | |
Zhu Tai |
alias | |
https://hub.docker.com/u/temunel |
dockerhub account | live |
patrickcoleman1129@outlook.com |
email address | |
temunelp@gmail.com |
email address | |
https://github.com/temunus |
github profile | live |
https://medium.com/@temunel |
medium account | |
https://x.com/chenglin1129 |
x account | |
https://x.com/temunel |
x account |
Cheng Lin
alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED
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The thread's second named worker, X account temunel, formerly chenglin1129, with the GitHub account temunus and an earlier temunel account preserved only on the Wayback Machine. Transcribed from the researcher's chart, which groups every account under the name it gives here and draws its links from mutual follows, shared contact details and repositories carrying one another's details. Accounts on platforms this site does not index, as the chart lists them: stackoverflow.com/users/23219369/temunel, mastodon.social/@temunel, temunel.hashnode.dev/, temunus.github.io/, github.com/temunus/temunus.github.io, web.archive.org/web/20240913165501/https://temunel.github.io/, web.archive.org/web/20241001025412/https://github.com/temunel, web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bns5masj5rbtdm5u2tbzq42q.
github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder — Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn) -
Found on 17 September 2026 by asking Docker Hub whether an account exists under temunel, one of the logins the registry already holds for this operator, and read from the profile cited. The account states a registration date of 29 April 2026. 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.
hub.docker.com/u/temunel — Chollima Hunter -
Read on 20 September 2026 by walking the commit history of every repository on the GitHub account github.com/temunus, already held under this persona, and tallying the author line on every commit. A commit's author line is what the holder configured their git client with rather than anything the profile page chooses to display, so it recovers addresses the account never states. The address recorded here was not already in this index: patrickcoleman1129@outlook.com authored 17 commits across 4 of its repositories, commits as "temunus". Each is admitted because it commits under a name the account itself uses, which is the test that separates the holder's own address from the original author of a repository copied in. Addresses belonging to unrelated developers whose work appears in these repositories are deliberately not recorded, and an address is evidence that whoever held it wrote those commits rather than proof of who holds the account.
github.com/temunus — Chollima Hunter
Patrick Lin
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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The thread's second named worker, X account temunel, formerly chenglin1129, with the GitHub account temunus and an earlier temunel account preserved only on the Wayback Machine. Transcribed from the researcher's chart, which groups every account under the name it gives here and draws its links from mutual follows, shared contact details and repositories carrying one another's details. Accounts on platforms this site does not index, as the chart lists them: stackoverflow.com/users/23219369/temunel, mastodon.social/@temunel, temunel.hashnode.dev/, temunus.github.io/, github.com/temunus/temunus.github.io, web.archive.org/web/20240913165501/https://temunel.github.io/, web.archive.org/web/20241001025412/https://github.com/temunel, web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bns5masj5rbtdm5u2tbzq42q.
github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder — Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn)
Zhu Tai
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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The thread's second named worker, X account temunel, formerly chenglin1129, with the GitHub account temunus and an earlier temunel account preserved only on the Wayback Machine. Transcribed from the researcher's chart, which groups every account under the name it gives here and draws its links from mutual follows, shared contact details and repositories carrying one another's details. Accounts on platforms this site does not index, as the chart lists them: stackoverflow.com/users/23219369/temunel, mastodon.social/@temunel, temunel.hashnode.dev/, temunus.github.io/, github.com/temunus/temunus.github.io, web.archive.org/web/20240913165501/https://temunel.github.io/, web.archive.org/web/20241001025412/https://github.com/temunel, web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bns5masj5rbtdm5u2tbzq42q.
github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder — Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn)
https://hub.docker.com/u/temunel
dockerhub account IT Worker Fraud CURATED live
live
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Found on 17 September 2026 by asking Docker Hub whether an account exists under temunel, one of the logins the registry already holds for this operator, and read from the profile cited. The account states a registration date of 29 April 2026. 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.
hub.docker.com/u/temunel — Chollima Hunter
patrickcoleman1129@outlook.com
email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED
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Read on 20 September 2026 by walking the commit history of every repository on the GitHub account github.com/temunus, already held under this persona, and tallying the author line on every commit. A commit's author line is what the holder configured their git client with rather than anything the profile page chooses to display, so it recovers addresses the account never states. The address recorded here was not already in this index: patrickcoleman1129@outlook.com authored 17 commits across 4 of its repositories, commits as "temunus". Each is admitted because it commits under a name the account itself uses, which is the test that separates the holder's own address from the original author of a repository copied in. Addresses belonging to unrelated developers whose work appears in these repositories are deliberately not recorded, and an address is evidence that whoever held it wrote those commits rather than proof of who holds the account.
github.com/temunus — Chollima Hunter
temunelp@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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The thread's second named worker, X account temunel, formerly chenglin1129, with the GitHub account temunus and an earlier temunel account preserved only on the Wayback Machine. Transcribed from the researcher's chart, which groups every account under the name it gives here and draws its links from mutual follows, shared contact details and repositories carrying one another's details. Accounts on platforms this site does not index, as the chart lists them: stackoverflow.com/users/23219369/temunel, mastodon.social/@temunel, temunel.hashnode.dev/, temunus.github.io/, github.com/temunus/temunus.github.io, web.archive.org/web/20240913165501/https://temunel.github.io/, web.archive.org/web/20241001025412/https://github.com/temunel, web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bns5masj5rbtdm5u2tbzq42q.
github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder — Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn)
https://github.com/temunus
github profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live
live
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The thread's second named worker, X account temunel, formerly chenglin1129, with the GitHub account temunus and an earlier temunel account preserved only on the Wayback Machine. Transcribed from the researcher's chart, which groups every account under the name it gives here and draws its links from mutual follows, shared contact details and repositories carrying one another's details. Accounts on platforms this site does not index, as the chart lists them: stackoverflow.com/users/23219369/temunel, mastodon.social/@temunel, temunel.hashnode.dev/, temunus.github.io/, github.com/temunus/temunus.github.io, web.archive.org/web/20240913165501/https://temunel.github.io/, web.archive.org/web/20241001025412/https://github.com/temunel, web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bns5masj5rbtdm5u2tbzq42q.
github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder — Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn)
https://medium.com/@temunel
medium account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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The thread's second named worker, X account temunel, formerly chenglin1129, with the GitHub account temunus and an earlier temunel account preserved only on the Wayback Machine. Transcribed from the researcher's chart, which groups every account under the name it gives here and draws its links from mutual follows, shared contact details and repositories carrying one another's details. Accounts on platforms this site does not index, as the chart lists them: stackoverflow.com/users/23219369/temunel, mastodon.social/@temunel, temunel.hashnode.dev/, temunus.github.io/, github.com/temunus/temunus.github.io, web.archive.org/web/20240913165501/https://temunel.github.io/, web.archive.org/web/20241001025412/https://github.com/temunel, web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bns5masj5rbtdm5u2tbzq42q.
github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder — Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn)
https://x.com/chenglin1129
x account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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The thread's second named worker, X account temunel, formerly chenglin1129, with the GitHub account temunus and an earlier temunel account preserved only on the Wayback Machine. Transcribed from the researcher's chart, which groups every account under the name it gives here and draws its links from mutual follows, shared contact details and repositories carrying one another's details. Accounts on platforms this site does not index, as the chart lists them: stackoverflow.com/users/23219369/temunel, mastodon.social/@temunel, temunel.hashnode.dev/, temunus.github.io/, github.com/temunus/temunus.github.io, web.archive.org/web/20240913165501/https://temunel.github.io/, web.archive.org/web/20241001025412/https://github.com/temunel, web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bns5masj5rbtdm5u2tbzq42q.
github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder — Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn)
https://x.com/temunel
x account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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The thread's second named worker, X account temunel, formerly chenglin1129, with the GitHub account temunus and an earlier temunel account preserved only on the Wayback Machine. Transcribed from the researcher's chart, which groups every account under the name it gives here and draws its links from mutual follows, shared contact details and repositories carrying one another's details. Accounts on platforms this site does not index, as the chart lists them: stackoverflow.com/users/23219369/temunel, mastodon.social/@temunel, temunel.hashnode.dev/, temunus.github.io/, github.com/temunus/temunus.github.io, web.archive.org/web/20240913165501/https://temunel.github.io/, web.archive.org/web/20241001025412/https://github.com/temunel, web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bns5masj5rbtdm5u2tbzq42q.
github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder — Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn)
Sources
- github.com/Kawaii-Jong-UWUn/ITW-Cluster-Research/tree/main/EliteCoder — Kawaii Jong UwUn (@KawaiiJongUwUn)
- hub.docker.com/u/temunel — Chollima Hunter
- github.com/temunus — Chollima Hunter