Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu

A fabricated professional identity used in the DPRK remote IT-worker scheme. Everything below was filed under the heading “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” by the report that documented it.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2026-08-30 · last reported 2026-10-18

LinkedIn accounts

Identifiers reported alongside

20 indicators filed under the same heading, each with its sources.

IndicatorTypeAccount status
bitbaby888@gmail.com email address —
blueraptor1001@gmail.com email address —
bomalkevych@gmail.com email address —
choilink227@gmail.com email address —
jamshedlatipov@gmail.com email address —
mauro@blueberry.garden email address —
pwongexcal@gmail.com email address —
zhaoa4317@gmail.com email address —
https://github.com/0xchamel github profile removed checked 2026-08-30
https://github.com/0xllach github profile live checked 2026-08-30
https://github.com/0xlocker github profile live checked 2026-08-30
https://github.com/bluechamel github profile live checked 2026-08-30
https://github.com/ethlocker github profile removed checked 2026-08-30
https://github.com/harmony-one github profile live checked 2026-08-30
https://github.com/imyugioh github profile live checked 2026-08-30
https://github.com/raptor1001 github profile live checked 2026-08-30
https://github.com/zhchameleon github profile removed checked 2026-08-30
https://t.me/chamel92 telegram account not checked
https://t.me/imyugioh telegram account not checked
https://t.me/lladefa telegram account not checked

bitbaby888@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE

Also listed under Mauro Liu — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-30 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Nearby text:

    …0xlocker, Burndai, Derek Lee, Raptor, Raptor1001, burndai, ethlocker, unlocker - choi.link227@gmail.com: Ryan Choi - bitbaby888@gmail.com - mauro@blueberry.garden (blueChamel) - pwongexcal@gmail.com (0xchamel) - zhaoa4317@gmail.com (zhChameleon) - t.me/chamel92 (ID:…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

blueraptor1001@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE

Also listed under Mauro Liu, Tyler Knapp — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-04 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • SOTAHire's article reports that Consensys, the company behind MetaMask, confirmed it had unknowingly engaged a contractor under the identity Tyler Knapp through a third-party staffing firm, who worked on MetaMask code from 9 March to April 2026 before the contractor's ties to the DPRK IT-worker network were found. The article ties that contractor to the GitHub account imyugioh, display name Yu-Gi-Oh!, which it traces to account id 54774811 and to the earlier logins raptor1001, ethlocker, burndai and 0xlocker, and it lists the further personas Ryan Choi, Stephen Gooden, Andrian Fadhilla and the new Ryota Suzuki with their accounts and addresses, all transcribed here. The article reports the Ryan Choi LinkedIn account and Calendly link as dead; the Calendly link is carried for the record. The Ryota Suzuki LinkedIn account was live when checked on 24 September 2026. The lazarus.group registry, which this index already holds, files blueraptor1001@gmail.com and choi.link227@gmail.com under Mauro Liu, and Raden Wilford's article, filed under that name, covers the same identity.
    www.linkedin.com/pulse/metamask-hired-north-korean-operative-who-had-access-harmony-evnnc/ — SOTAHire · under “Tyler Knapp / Ryota Suzuki / Ryan Choi / Stephen Gooden / Andrian Fadhilla / Brandon Curtis” · published 2026-08-04 · pulled 2026-09-24
  • Raden Wilford's article maps the commit history of the identity the lazarus.group registry files as Mauro Liu: 1,558 commits over seven years across 68 repositories and seventeen organisations, including Harmony, MetaMask and DefiLlama. It binds the GitHub account imyugioh, id 54774811, and its former logins raptor1001, ethlocker, 0xlocker and burndai by noreply addresses; adds 0xllaCh, which holds the contract work; and adds a second account, id 39268153, with the logins gmspacex, holy-pengy, 0xMars, zeusdice and firekingsid, which it ties to the mauroliu77 half by 279 of 279 matching author times and tree hashes. It records that commits under one address declared Asian and Western clocks on forty-four days of the same repository, which it reads as more than one operator on one identity, and it states that no exploit is attributed to the identity. The article names daiki-iu, a collaborator on HedgePie, as a registry alias of the persona; that is carried only in this note. Its X handles 0xchamel and zhExcal and the alias Xu Liu are what the article reports the registry entry to carry.
    www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-metamask-68-repositories-17-organizations-all-reached-wilford-n7m1c/ — Raden Wilford · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / Derek Lee / Burndai / 0xchamel” · published 2026-08-06 · pulled 2026-09-24
  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Nearby text:

    …• [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20250827055032/https://github.com/imyugioh) - github.com/raptor1001 - github.com/zhChameleon - blueraptor1001@gmail.com: 0xlocker, Burndai, Derek Lee, Raptor, Raptor1001, burndai, ethlocker, unlocker - choi.link227@gmail.com: Ryan Choi -…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

bomalkevych@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE

First seen 2026-08-30 · last seen 2026-10-18

Source

  • …Finance (2023-2024), Blueberry, Pickle Finance, Harmony Wallet - Overlaps with: Jason Kown, 0xm00neth, Daiki Saito, Malkevych Bohdan bomalkevych@gmail.com, Jamshed Latipov jamshedlatipov@gmail.com - 0xchamel - 0xllaCh - blueChamel - chamel92 - daiki-iu - Gornutz - lmauro77 - mauroh.perk -…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

choilink227@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED

Listed as choi.link227@gmail.com

Also listed under Mauro Liu, Tyler Knapp — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-04 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • SOTAHire's article reports that Consensys, the company behind MetaMask, confirmed it had unknowingly engaged a contractor under the identity Tyler Knapp through a third-party staffing firm, who worked on MetaMask code from 9 March to April 2026 before the contractor's ties to the DPRK IT-worker network were found. The article ties that contractor to the GitHub account imyugioh, display name Yu-Gi-Oh!, which it traces to account id 54774811 and to the earlier logins raptor1001, ethlocker, burndai and 0xlocker, and it lists the further personas Ryan Choi, Stephen Gooden, Andrian Fadhilla and the new Ryota Suzuki with their accounts and addresses, all transcribed here. The article reports the Ryan Choi LinkedIn account and Calendly link as dead; the Calendly link is carried for the record. The Ryota Suzuki LinkedIn account was live when checked on 24 September 2026. The lazarus.group registry, which this index already holds, files blueraptor1001@gmail.com and choi.link227@gmail.com under Mauro Liu, and Raden Wilford's article, filed under that name, covers the same identity.
    www.linkedin.com/pulse/metamask-hired-north-korean-operative-who-had-access-harmony-evnnc/ — SOTAHire · under “Tyler Knapp / Ryota Suzuki / Ryan Choi / Stephen Gooden / Andrian Fadhilla / Brandon Curtis” · published 2026-08-04 · pulled 2026-09-24
  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for published persona addresses and reading which account GitHub attributes the commits to. GitHub credits a commit to the account that has the signing address registered and verified, which only the holder of the mailbox can do, so an attributed account is one the address's holder controls, whichever repository the commits sit in and whenever the address was added. Counts are of the commits GitHub's search returns, up to 100. GitHub attributes 100 commits signed choi.link227@gmail.com, an address the lazarus.group registry publishes for this persona, to github.com/wpickachu, account id 50459820, created on 9 May 2019, display name It's me!, with 86 public repositories.
    github.com/wpickachu — Chollima Hunter · under “Mauro Liu” · pulled 2026-09-24
  • Nearby text:

    …github.com/zhChameleon - blueraptor1001@gmail.com: 0xlocker, Burndai, Derek Lee, Raptor, Raptor1001, burndai, ethlocker, unlocker - choi.link227@gmail.com: Ryan Choi - bitbaby888@gmail.com - mauro@blueberry.garden (blueChamel) - pwongexcal@gmail.com (0xchamel) - zhaoa4317@gmail.com…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

jamshedlatipov@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE

First seen 2026-08-30 · last seen 2026-10-18

Source

  • …Finance, Harmony Wallet - Overlaps with: Jason Kown, 0xm00neth, Daiki Saito, Malkevych Bohdan bomalkevych@gmail.com, Jamshed Latipov jamshedlatipov@gmail.com - 0xchamel - 0xllaCh - blueChamel - chamel92 - daiki-iu - Gornutz - lmauro77 - mauroh.perk - mauroliu77 - zhChamel - zhChameleon -…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

mauro@blueberry.garden

email address IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE

Also listed under Mauro Liu — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-30 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Nearby text:

    …Burndai, Derek Lee, Raptor, Raptor1001, burndai, ethlocker, unlocker - choi.link227@gmail.com: Ryan Choi - bitbaby888@gmail.com - mauro@blueberry.garden (blueChamel) - pwongexcal@gmail.com (0xchamel) - zhaoa4317@gmail.com (zhChameleon) - t.me/chamel92 (ID: 6635242888) •…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

pwongexcal@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE

Also listed under Mauro Liu — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-30 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Nearby text:

    …burndai, ethlocker, unlocker - choi.link227@gmail.com: Ryan Choi - bitbaby888@gmail.com - mauro@blueberry.garden (blueChamel) - pwongexcal@gmail.com (0xchamel) - zhaoa4317@gmail.com (zhChameleon) - t.me/chamel92 (ID: 6635242888) • ([Messages](./user-6635242888-@chamel92.txt)) -…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

zhaoa4317@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE

Also listed under Mauro Liu — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-06 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • Raden Wilford's article maps the commit history of the identity the lazarus.group registry files as Mauro Liu: 1,558 commits over seven years across 68 repositories and seventeen organisations, including Harmony, MetaMask and DefiLlama. It binds the GitHub account imyugioh, id 54774811, and its former logins raptor1001, ethlocker, 0xlocker and burndai by noreply addresses; adds 0xllaCh, which holds the contract work; and adds a second account, id 39268153, with the logins gmspacex, holy-pengy, 0xMars, zeusdice and firekingsid, which it ties to the mauroliu77 half by 279 of 279 matching author times and tree hashes. It records that commits under one address declared Asian and Western clocks on forty-four days of the same repository, which it reads as more than one operator on one identity, and it states that no exploit is attributed to the identity. The article names daiki-iu, a collaborator on HedgePie, as a registry alias of the persona; that is carried only in this note. Its X handles 0xchamel and zhExcal and the alias Xu Liu are what the article reports the registry entry to carry.
    www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-metamask-68-repositories-17-organizations-all-reached-wilford-n7m1c/ — Raden Wilford · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / Derek Lee / Burndai / 0xchamel” · published 2026-08-06 · pulled 2026-09-24
  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Nearby text:

    …choi.link227@gmail.com: Ryan Choi - bitbaby888@gmail.com - mauro@blueberry.garden (blueChamel) - pwongexcal@gmail.com (0xchamel) - zhaoa4317@gmail.com (zhChameleon) - t.me/chamel92 (ID: 6635242888) • ([Messages](./user-6635242888-@chamel92.txt)) - t.me/lladefa (ID: 1167965872) •…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

https://github.com/0xchamel

github profile IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE removed checked 2026-08-30

Listed as 0xchamel

Also listed under Mauro Liu — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-30 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • …bitbaby888 - imyugioh - zhExcal - 0xlocker - ethlocker - raptor1001 - x.com/0xchamel - x.com/zhExcal - linkedin.com/in/lmauro77 - github.com/0xchamel - github.com/0xllaCh • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20250827054938/https://github.com/0xllaCh) - github.com/0xlocker •…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

https://github.com/0xllach

github profile IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE live checked 2026-08-30

Listed as 0xllach

Also listed under Mauro Liu — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-06 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • Raden Wilford's article maps the commit history of the identity the lazarus.group registry files as Mauro Liu: 1,558 commits over seven years across 68 repositories and seventeen organisations, including Harmony, MetaMask and DefiLlama. It binds the GitHub account imyugioh, id 54774811, and its former logins raptor1001, ethlocker, 0xlocker and burndai by noreply addresses; adds 0xllaCh, which holds the contract work; and adds a second account, id 39268153, with the logins gmspacex, holy-pengy, 0xMars, zeusdice and firekingsid, which it ties to the mauroliu77 half by 279 of 279 matching author times and tree hashes. It records that commits under one address declared Asian and Western clocks on forty-four days of the same repository, which it reads as more than one operator on one identity, and it states that no exploit is attributed to the identity. The article names daiki-iu, a collaborator on HedgePie, as a registry alias of the persona; that is carried only in this note. Its X handles 0xchamel and zhExcal and the alias Xu Liu are what the article reports the registry entry to carry.
    www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-metamask-68-repositories-17-organizations-all-reached-wilford-n7m1c/ — Raden Wilford · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / Derek Lee / Burndai / 0xchamel” · published 2026-08-06 · pulled 2026-09-24
  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • …zhExcal - 0xlocker - ethlocker - raptor1001 - x.com/0xchamel - x.com/zhExcal - linkedin.com/in/lmauro77 - github.com/0xchamel - github.com/0xllaCh • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20250827054938/https://github.com/0xllaCh) - github.com/0xlocker •…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

https://github.com/0xlocker

github profile IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE live checked 2026-08-30

Listed as 0xlocker

Also listed under Mauro Liu, Tyler Knapp — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-04 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • SOTAHire's article reports that Consensys, the company behind MetaMask, confirmed it had unknowingly engaged a contractor under the identity Tyler Knapp through a third-party staffing firm, who worked on MetaMask code from 9 March to April 2026 before the contractor's ties to the DPRK IT-worker network were found. The article ties that contractor to the GitHub account imyugioh, display name Yu-Gi-Oh!, which it traces to account id 54774811 and to the earlier logins raptor1001, ethlocker, burndai and 0xlocker, and it lists the further personas Ryan Choi, Stephen Gooden, Andrian Fadhilla and the new Ryota Suzuki with their accounts and addresses, all transcribed here. The article reports the Ryan Choi LinkedIn account and Calendly link as dead; the Calendly link is carried for the record. The Ryota Suzuki LinkedIn account was live when checked on 24 September 2026. The lazarus.group registry, which this index already holds, files blueraptor1001@gmail.com and choi.link227@gmail.com under Mauro Liu, and Raden Wilford's article, filed under that name, covers the same identity.
    www.linkedin.com/pulse/metamask-hired-north-korean-operative-who-had-access-harmony-evnnc/ — SOTAHire · under “Tyler Knapp / Ryota Suzuki / Ryan Choi / Stephen Gooden / Andrian Fadhilla / Brandon Curtis” · published 2026-08-04 · pulled 2026-09-24
  • Raden Wilford's article maps the commit history of the identity the lazarus.group registry files as Mauro Liu: 1,558 commits over seven years across 68 repositories and seventeen organisations, including Harmony, MetaMask and DefiLlama. It binds the GitHub account imyugioh, id 54774811, and its former logins raptor1001, ethlocker, 0xlocker and burndai by noreply addresses; adds 0xllaCh, which holds the contract work; and adds a second account, id 39268153, with the logins gmspacex, holy-pengy, 0xMars, zeusdice and firekingsid, which it ties to the mauroliu77 half by 279 of 279 matching author times and tree hashes. It records that commits under one address declared Asian and Western clocks on forty-four days of the same repository, which it reads as more than one operator on one identity, and it states that no exploit is attributed to the identity. The article names daiki-iu, a collaborator on HedgePie, as a registry alias of the persona; that is carried only in this note. Its X handles 0xchamel and zhExcal and the alias Xu Liu are what the article reports the registry entry to carry.
    www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-metamask-68-repositories-17-organizations-all-reached-wilford-n7m1c/ — Raden Wilford · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / Derek Lee / Burndai / 0xchamel” · published 2026-08-06 · pulled 2026-09-24
  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Nearby text:

    …github.com/0xchamel - github.com/0xllaCh • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20250827054938/https://github.com/0xllaCh) - github.com/0xlocker • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20210309195053/https://github.com/0xlocker) - github.com/blueChamel •…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

https://github.com/bluechamel

github profile IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE live checked 2026-08-30

Listed as bluechamel

Also listed under Mauro Liu — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-30 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Nearby text:

    …github.com/0xlocker • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20210309195053/https://github.com/0xlocker) - github.com/blueChamel • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20250827055005/https://github.com/blueChamel) - github.com/ethlocker (name: Hack the Moon!) •…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

https://github.com/ethlocker

github profile IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE removed checked 2026-08-30

Listed as ethlocker

Also listed under Mauro Liu, Tyler Knapp — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-04 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • SOTAHire's article reports that Consensys, the company behind MetaMask, confirmed it had unknowingly engaged a contractor under the identity Tyler Knapp through a third-party staffing firm, who worked on MetaMask code from 9 March to April 2026 before the contractor's ties to the DPRK IT-worker network were found. The article ties that contractor to the GitHub account imyugioh, display name Yu-Gi-Oh!, which it traces to account id 54774811 and to the earlier logins raptor1001, ethlocker, burndai and 0xlocker, and it lists the further personas Ryan Choi, Stephen Gooden, Andrian Fadhilla and the new Ryota Suzuki with their accounts and addresses, all transcribed here. The article reports the Ryan Choi LinkedIn account and Calendly link as dead; the Calendly link is carried for the record. The Ryota Suzuki LinkedIn account was live when checked on 24 September 2026. The lazarus.group registry, which this index already holds, files blueraptor1001@gmail.com and choi.link227@gmail.com under Mauro Liu, and Raden Wilford's article, filed under that name, covers the same identity.
    www.linkedin.com/pulse/metamask-hired-north-korean-operative-who-had-access-harmony-evnnc/ — SOTAHire · under “Tyler Knapp / Ryota Suzuki / Ryan Choi / Stephen Gooden / Andrian Fadhilla / Brandon Curtis” · published 2026-08-04 · pulled 2026-09-24
  • Raden Wilford's article maps the commit history of the identity the lazarus.group registry files as Mauro Liu: 1,558 commits over seven years across 68 repositories and seventeen organisations, including Harmony, MetaMask and DefiLlama. It binds the GitHub account imyugioh, id 54774811, and its former logins raptor1001, ethlocker, 0xlocker and burndai by noreply addresses; adds 0xllaCh, which holds the contract work; and adds a second account, id 39268153, with the logins gmspacex, holy-pengy, 0xMars, zeusdice and firekingsid, which it ties to the mauroliu77 half by 279 of 279 matching author times and tree hashes. It records that commits under one address declared Asian and Western clocks on forty-four days of the same repository, which it reads as more than one operator on one identity, and it states that no exploit is attributed to the identity. The article names daiki-iu, a collaborator on HedgePie, as a registry alias of the persona; that is carried only in this note. Its X handles 0xchamel and zhExcal and the alias Xu Liu are what the article reports the registry entry to carry.
    www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-metamask-68-repositories-17-organizations-all-reached-wilford-n7m1c/ — Raden Wilford · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / Derek Lee / Burndai / 0xchamel” · published 2026-08-06 · pulled 2026-09-24
  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Nearby text:

    …github.com/blueChamel • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20250827055005/https://github.com/blueChamel) - github.com/ethlocker (name: Hack the Moon!) • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20230214213422/https://github.com/ethlocker) - github.com/imyugioh •…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

https://github.com/harmony-one

github profile IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE live checked 2026-08-30

Listed as harmony-one

First seen 2026-08-30 · last seen 2026-10-18

Source

  • Nearby text:

    …2 - https://blogtienao.com/depo-coin/ - https://cryptototem.com/glory-games-worlds-glory/ - https://gamerse.gitbook.io/gamerse/team - https://github.com/harmony-one/chrome-extension-wallet/graphs/contributors - https://medium.com/@CryptoSavingExpert/in-depth-review-of-five-new-play-to-earn-games-part-9-magic-craft-professionalism-df7bc9c4b2de -…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

https://github.com/imyugioh

github profile IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE live checked 2026-08-30

Listed as imyugioh

Also listed under Mauro Liu, Tyler Knapp — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-04 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • SOTAHire's article reports that Consensys, the company behind MetaMask, confirmed it had unknowingly engaged a contractor under the identity Tyler Knapp through a third-party staffing firm, who worked on MetaMask code from 9 March to April 2026 before the contractor's ties to the DPRK IT-worker network were found. The article ties that contractor to the GitHub account imyugioh, display name Yu-Gi-Oh!, which it traces to account id 54774811 and to the earlier logins raptor1001, ethlocker, burndai and 0xlocker, and it lists the further personas Ryan Choi, Stephen Gooden, Andrian Fadhilla and the new Ryota Suzuki with their accounts and addresses, all transcribed here. The article reports the Ryan Choi LinkedIn account and Calendly link as dead; the Calendly link is carried for the record. The Ryota Suzuki LinkedIn account was live when checked on 24 September 2026. The lazarus.group registry, which this index already holds, files blueraptor1001@gmail.com and choi.link227@gmail.com under Mauro Liu, and Raden Wilford's article, filed under that name, covers the same identity.
    www.linkedin.com/pulse/metamask-hired-north-korean-operative-who-had-access-harmony-evnnc/ — SOTAHire · under “Tyler Knapp / Ryota Suzuki / Ryan Choi / Stephen Gooden / Andrian Fadhilla / Brandon Curtis” · published 2026-08-04 · pulled 2026-09-24
  • Raden Wilford's article maps the commit history of the identity the lazarus.group registry files as Mauro Liu: 1,558 commits over seven years across 68 repositories and seventeen organisations, including Harmony, MetaMask and DefiLlama. It binds the GitHub account imyugioh, id 54774811, and its former logins raptor1001, ethlocker, 0xlocker and burndai by noreply addresses; adds 0xllaCh, which holds the contract work; and adds a second account, id 39268153, with the logins gmspacex, holy-pengy, 0xMars, zeusdice and firekingsid, which it ties to the mauroliu77 half by 279 of 279 matching author times and tree hashes. It records that commits under one address declared Asian and Western clocks on forty-four days of the same repository, which it reads as more than one operator on one identity, and it states that no exploit is attributed to the identity. The article names daiki-iu, a collaborator on HedgePie, as a registry alias of the persona; that is carried only in this note. Its X handles 0xchamel and zhExcal and the alias Xu Liu are what the article reports the registry entry to carry.
    www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-metamask-68-repositories-17-organizations-all-reached-wilford-n7m1c/ — Raden Wilford · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / Derek Lee / Burndai / 0xchamel” · published 2026-08-06 · pulled 2026-09-24
  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Nearby text:

    …github.com/ethlocker (name: Hack the Moon!) • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20230214213422/https://github.com/ethlocker) - github.com/imyugioh • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20250827055032/https://github.com/imyugioh) - github.com/raptor1001 - github.com/zhChameleon -…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

https://github.com/raptor1001

github profile IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE live checked 2026-08-30

Listed as raptor1001

Also listed under Mauro Liu, Tyler Knapp — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-04 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • SOTAHire's article reports that Consensys, the company behind MetaMask, confirmed it had unknowingly engaged a contractor under the identity Tyler Knapp through a third-party staffing firm, who worked on MetaMask code from 9 March to April 2026 before the contractor's ties to the DPRK IT-worker network were found. The article ties that contractor to the GitHub account imyugioh, display name Yu-Gi-Oh!, which it traces to account id 54774811 and to the earlier logins raptor1001, ethlocker, burndai and 0xlocker, and it lists the further personas Ryan Choi, Stephen Gooden, Andrian Fadhilla and the new Ryota Suzuki with their accounts and addresses, all transcribed here. The article reports the Ryan Choi LinkedIn account and Calendly link as dead; the Calendly link is carried for the record. The Ryota Suzuki LinkedIn account was live when checked on 24 September 2026. The lazarus.group registry, which this index already holds, files blueraptor1001@gmail.com and choi.link227@gmail.com under Mauro Liu, and Raden Wilford's article, filed under that name, covers the same identity.
    www.linkedin.com/pulse/metamask-hired-north-korean-operative-who-had-access-harmony-evnnc/ — SOTAHire · under “Tyler Knapp / Ryota Suzuki / Ryan Choi / Stephen Gooden / Andrian Fadhilla / Brandon Curtis” · published 2026-08-04 · pulled 2026-09-24
  • Raden Wilford's article maps the commit history of the identity the lazarus.group registry files as Mauro Liu: 1,558 commits over seven years across 68 repositories and seventeen organisations, including Harmony, MetaMask and DefiLlama. It binds the GitHub account imyugioh, id 54774811, and its former logins raptor1001, ethlocker, 0xlocker and burndai by noreply addresses; adds 0xllaCh, which holds the contract work; and adds a second account, id 39268153, with the logins gmspacex, holy-pengy, 0xMars, zeusdice and firekingsid, which it ties to the mauroliu77 half by 279 of 279 matching author times and tree hashes. It records that commits under one address declared Asian and Western clocks on forty-four days of the same repository, which it reads as more than one operator on one identity, and it states that no exploit is attributed to the identity. The article names daiki-iu, a collaborator on HedgePie, as a registry alias of the persona; that is carried only in this note. Its X handles 0xchamel and zhExcal and the alias Xu Liu are what the article reports the registry entry to carry.
    www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-metamask-68-repositories-17-organizations-all-reached-wilford-n7m1c/ — Raden Wilford · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / Derek Lee / Burndai / 0xchamel” · published 2026-08-06 · pulled 2026-09-24
  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Nearby text:

    …github.com/imyugioh • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20250827055032/https://github.com/imyugioh) - github.com/raptor1001 - github.com/zhChameleon - blueraptor1001@gmail.com: 0xlocker, Burndai, Derek Lee, Raptor, Raptor1001, burndai, ethlocker, unlocker -…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

https://github.com/zhchameleon

github profile IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE removed checked 2026-08-30

Listed as zhchameleon

Also listed under Mauro Liu — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-08-30 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Nearby text:

    …github.com/imyugioh • [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20250827055032/https://github.com/imyugioh) - github.com/raptor1001 - github.com/zhChameleon - blueraptor1001@gmail.com: 0xlocker, Burndai, Derek Lee, Raptor, Raptor1001, burndai, ethlocker, unlocker - choi.link227@gmail.com: Ryan…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-08-30

https://t.me/chamel92

telegram account IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE live checked 2026-11-15

Listed as chamel92

Also listed under Mauro Liu — this value’s page names all of them.

First seen 2026-09-01 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • 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/mauro-liu — Lazarus Group DPRK IT-Worker Registry (lazarus.group) · under “Mauro Liu / Xu Liu / 0xchamel / 0xllaCh / blueChamel / chamel92 / daiki-iu / Gornutz / lmauro77 / mauroh.perk / mauroliu77 / zhChamel / zhChameleon / bitbaby888 / imyugioh / zhExcal / 0xlocker / ethlocker / raptor1001” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • Nearby text:

    …Choi - bitbaby888@gmail.com - mauro@blueberry.garden (blueChamel) - pwongexcal@gmail.com (0xchamel) - zhaoa4317@gmail.com (zhChameleon) - t.me/chamel92 (ID: 6635242888) • ([Messages](./user-6635242888-@chamel92.txt)) - t.me/lladefa (ID: 1167965872) •…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-09-01

https://t.me/imyugioh

telegram account IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE live checked 2026-11-15

Listed as imyugioh

First seen 2026-09-01 · last seen 2026-10-18

Source

  • Nearby text:

    …• ([Messages](./user-6635242888-@chamel92.txt)) - t.me/lladefa (ID: 1167965872) • ([Messages](./user-1167965872-@lladefa.txt)) - t.me/imyugioh (ID: 1036098681) • ([Messages](./user-1036098681-@imyugioh.txt)) - 0xc9b46489567684aafbe85e8a783bb9bfb822807f - T -…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-09-01

https://t.me/lladefa

telegram account IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE live checked 2026-11-15

Listed as lladefa

First seen 2026-09-01 · last seen 2026-10-18

Source

  • Nearby text:

    …(0xchamel) - zhaoa4317@gmail.com (zhChameleon) - t.me/chamel92 (ID: 6635242888) • ([Messages](./user-6635242888-@chamel92.txt)) - t.me/lladefa (ID: 1167965872) • ([Messages](./user-1167965872-@lladefa.txt)) - t.me/imyugioh (ID: 1036098681) •…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-09-01

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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. Mauro Liu aka Xu Liu is the name an account presented under, not established to be the name of its operator.