James Zook

Also reported as: Russel Hieu

A professional identity listed by a third-party registry of suspected DPRK IT-worker personas, cited below. The registry publishes no byline or methodology, so the attribution is the registry's.

IT Worker Fraud

Profiles and evidence

Identifiers attributed to this persona

7 indicators the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.

James Zook

alias IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
    lazarus.group/team/james-zook — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “James Zook / Russel Hieu” · pulled 2026-09-09

Russel Hieu

alias IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
    lazarus.group/team/james-zook — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “James Zook / Russel Hieu” · pulled 2026-09-09

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wallet address IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
    lazarus.group/team/james-zook — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “James Zook / Russel Hieu” · pulled 2026-09-09

0x38037c0fafae5c97d411c0460c5f0af40f82b7bd

wallet address IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
    lazarus.group/team/james-zook — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “James Zook / Russel Hieu” · pulled 2026-09-09

0x4480206854d67338c8b792a1db2a9189ee75d813

wallet address IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
    lazarus.group/team/james-zook — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “James Zook / Russel Hieu” · pulled 2026-09-09

0xb5bcb3935e0b3e6a581fba37f40d0f472ccf378a

wallet address IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
    lazarus.group/team/james-zook — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “James Zook / Russel Hieu” · pulled 2026-09-09

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wallet address IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • Entry in the lazarus.group DPRK IT-worker registry, which asserts that these accounts belong to one operator. The registry publishes no methodology, so this is recorded as its claim and not as a finding of this site. Its evidence links and its cross-references to other operators in the same registry are deliberately not reproduced as indicators.
    lazarus.group/team/james-zook — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “James Zook / Russel Hieu” · pulled 2026-09-09

Sources

  • lazarus.group/team/james-zook — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “James Zook / Russel Hieu” · pulled 2026-09-09

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