Renz Patdu

A fabricated professional identity used in the DPRK remote IT-worker scheme. Everything below is transcribed from the cited post, in which a named researcher attributes these accounts to a single operator, Renz Patdu. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2026-10-03

LinkedIn accounts

Identifiers reported alongside

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

IndicatorTypeAccount status
Renz Patdu alias —
renzpatdu0601@gmail.com email address —

Renz Patdu

alias IT Worker Fraud UNDER REVIEW

First seen 2026-10-03 · last seen 2026-10-03

Source

  • Confirmed by Chollima Hunter research and rated medium confidence; corroborated by Table 1: Russian IP ranges used in suspected North Korea-related campaigns, including 80.237.87.0/24, Trend Micro; TTK addresses associated with North Korean IT workers, including 80.237.87.21, ReliaQuest. From Chollima Hunter research, read on 3 October 2026. The applicant presenting as Renz Patdu, at renzpatdu0601@gmail.com, was recorded active from 80.237.87.36. That address is in 80.237.87.0/24, registered in RIPE as SKYFREIGHT-NET under TransTeleCom (AS20485) with the description "SKYFREIGHT, Hasan, Russia" and a Khabarovsk contact. Trend Micro lists that exact range, created in December 2024 and located at Khasan on the Russia-North Korea border, among the Russian ranges used in suspected North Korea-related campaigns, and ReliaQuest lists 80.237.87.21, in the same /24, among the TransTeleCom addresses used by North Korean IT workers. LinkedIn's people search returns two accounts under the name. renz-patdu-9992423b0 joined LinkedIn in February 2026 and presents a Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian in San Fernando, the Philippines, educated at Fudan University in Shanghai, with 54 connections and no verifications. renz-patdu-6a12373ba joined in March 2026 and presents a Senior Data Scientist at Antiland in Pasig, with no connections or posts. Which account the applicant used is not recorded.
    chollimahunter.github.io/remote-workers/ — Chollima Hunter · under “Renz Patdu” · pulled 2026-10-03

renzpatdu0601@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud UNDER REVIEW

First seen 2026-10-03 · last seen 2026-10-03

Source

  • Confirmed by Chollima Hunter research and rated medium confidence; corroborated by Table 1: Russian IP ranges used in suspected North Korea-related campaigns, including 80.237.87.0/24, Trend Micro; TTK addresses associated with North Korean IT workers, including 80.237.87.21, ReliaQuest. From Chollima Hunter research, read on 3 October 2026. The applicant presenting as Renz Patdu, at renzpatdu0601@gmail.com, was recorded active from 80.237.87.36. That address is in 80.237.87.0/24, registered in RIPE as SKYFREIGHT-NET under TransTeleCom (AS20485) with the description "SKYFREIGHT, Hasan, Russia" and a Khabarovsk contact. Trend Micro lists that exact range, created in December 2024 and located at Khasan on the Russia-North Korea border, among the Russian ranges used in suspected North Korea-related campaigns, and ReliaQuest lists 80.237.87.21, in the same /24, among the TransTeleCom addresses used by North Korean IT workers. LinkedIn's people search returns two accounts under the name. renz-patdu-9992423b0 joined LinkedIn in February 2026 and presents a Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian in San Fernando, the Philippines, educated at Fudan University in Shanghai, with 54 connections and no verifications. renz-patdu-6a12373ba joined in March 2026 and presents a Senior Data Scientist at Antiland in Pasig, with no connections or posts. Which account the applicant used is not recorded.
    chollimahunter.github.io/remote-workers/ — Chollima Hunter · under “Renz Patdu” · pulled 2026-10-03

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