Rui Kishimoto
Also reported as: HotCappuchinohotcappuccinodevHot CappuchinoRonnie Holt
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, Rui Kishimoto. 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 profile photograph the document publishes against one of this identity's addresses. The document also states that the identity uses photographs of a South Korean actor as its profile pictures, which is what this is: it shows the image the persona presented as itself and not the person operating it. The actor is not accused of anything and his name is deliberately not recorded as an indicator.
Profiles and evidence
The researcher's link-analysis diagram for the persona. It records that the operator populated the identity with stolen photographs of the South Korean actor Doh Kyung-soo (D.O.), and maps the linked emails, Telegram, GitHub accounts, an African payment gateway, an X account and a LinkedIn slug.
LinkedIn accounts
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rui-kishimoto-a12b15275/
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linkedin profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST removed
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Transcribed by hand from the link-analysis diagram attached to the post, read at full resolution in sections. The diagram is rooted at the GitHub account zeus-dev919, which is recorded here under ZEUS, and hangs this persona off an address associated with a repository under it. The researcher marks the LinkedIn profile as already down at the time of writing, and notes that the persona's photographs are taken from a named South Korean actor, who is recorded in the held-back list rather than here. The diagram also connects the persona's addresses onward to a named, publicly identifiable developer in Lagos. Nothing from that branch is published here, for the reason given in the held-back list. Note the spellings differ across the accounts and are transcribed as shown: hotcappuccinodev on GitHub, HotCappuchino on Telegram, hotcappuchino99 in the address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1914432957898793426 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
Identifiers reported alongside
10 indicators the sources below record for this operator, each with its sources.
| Indicator | Type | Account status |
|---|---|---|
Hot Cappuchino |
alias | |
Ronnie Holt |
alias | |
Rui Kishimoto |
alias | |
hotcappuchino99@gmail.com |
email address | |
ronnieholtpro@gmail.com |
email address | |
ruikishimoto99@gmail.com |
email address | |
https://github.com/hotcappuccinodev |
github profile | live |
https://gitlab.com/hotcappuchino99 |
gitlab account | live |
https://medium.com/@ruikishimoto99 |
medium account | |
https://t.me/hotcappuchino |
telegram account | live |
Hot Cappuchino
alias IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY
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Transcribed from the ZEUS-DEV-919 working document, an unsigned compilation published as a Google Doc and linked from a repository on the zeus-dev919 GitHub account. The document describes itself as raw data with no filtering applied and asks a reader to verify every linkage before acting on it, so it is carried here as that compilation's claim and not as a finding of this site. Its persona table pairs each name with the address and Skype identifier the application used. This persona is documented elsewhere in the repository already and the document is a second, independent compilation of the same accounts. It adds that the identity's profile pictures are photographs of a South Korean actor, which is why that actor stays in the held-back list: he is the subject of stolen images and is not accused of anything.
docs.google.com/document/d/1IdVIzSr5NOi76ugu67Ob3t39K6b4Rz_P7an0Q0M9HWo/edit — ZEUS-DEV-919 working document
Ronnie Holt
alias IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY
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Transcribed from the ZEUS-DEV-919 working document, an unsigned compilation published as a Google Doc and linked from a repository on the zeus-dev919 GitHub account. The document describes itself as raw data with no filtering applied and asks a reader to verify every linkage before acting on it, so it is carried here as that compilation's claim and not as a finding of this site. Its persona table pairs each name with the address and Skype identifier the application used. This persona is documented elsewhere in the repository already and the document is a second, independent compilation of the same accounts. It adds that the identity's profile pictures are photographs of a South Korean actor, which is why that actor stays in the held-back list: he is the subject of stolen images and is not accused of anything.
docs.google.com/document/d/1IdVIzSr5NOi76ugu67Ob3t39K6b4Rz_P7an0Q0M9HWo/edit — ZEUS-DEV-919 working document
Rui Kishimoto
alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED
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Transcribed by hand from the link-analysis diagram attached to the post, read at full resolution in sections. The diagram is rooted at the GitHub account zeus-dev919, which is recorded here under ZEUS, and hangs this persona off an address associated with a repository under it. The researcher marks the LinkedIn profile as already down at the time of writing, and notes that the persona's photographs are taken from a named South Korean actor, who is recorded in the held-back list rather than here. The diagram also connects the persona's addresses onward to a named, publicly identifiable developer in Lagos. Nothing from that branch is published here, for the reason given in the held-back list. Note the spellings differ across the accounts and are transcribed as shown: hotcappuccinodev on GitHub, HotCappuchino on Telegram, hotcappuchino99 in the address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1914432957898793426 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Transcribed from the ZEUS-DEV-919 working document, an unsigned compilation published as a Google Doc and linked from a repository on the zeus-dev919 GitHub account. The document describes itself as raw data with no filtering applied and asks a reader to verify every linkage before acting on it, so it is carried here as that compilation's claim and not as a finding of this site. Its persona table pairs each name with the address and Skype identifier the application used. This persona is documented elsewhere in the repository already and the document is a second, independent compilation of the same accounts. It adds that the identity's profile pictures are photographs of a South Korean actor, which is why that actor stays in the held-back list: he is the subject of stolen images and is not accused of anything.
docs.google.com/document/d/1IdVIzSr5NOi76ugu67Ob3t39K6b4Rz_P7an0Q0M9HWo/edit — ZEUS-DEV-919 working document -
Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- hotcappuchino99 -- 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 Hot Cappuchino. The display name is kept here rather than carried as an alias, because it restates the handle, describes the work, or is too bare to be a name. 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/hotcappuchino99 — Chollima Hunter
hotcappuchino99@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Transcribed by hand from the link-analysis diagram attached to the post, read at full resolution in sections. The diagram is rooted at the GitHub account zeus-dev919, which is recorded here under ZEUS, and hangs this persona off an address associated with a repository under it. The researcher marks the LinkedIn profile as already down at the time of writing, and notes that the persona's photographs are taken from a named South Korean actor, who is recorded in the held-back list rather than here. The diagram also connects the persona's addresses onward to a named, publicly identifiable developer in Lagos. Nothing from that branch is published here, for the reason given in the held-back list. Note the spellings differ across the accounts and are transcribed as shown: hotcappuccinodev on GitHub, HotCappuchino on Telegram, hotcappuchino99 in the address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1914432957898793426 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Transcribed from the ZEUS-DEV-919 working document, an unsigned compilation published as a Google Doc and linked from a repository on the zeus-dev919 GitHub account. The document describes itself as raw data with no filtering applied and asks a reader to verify every linkage before acting on it, so it is carried here as that compilation's claim and not as a finding of this site. Its persona table pairs each name with the address and Skype identifier the application used. This persona is documented elsewhere in the repository already and the document is a second, independent compilation of the same accounts. It adds that the identity's profile pictures are photographs of a South Korean actor, which is why that actor stays in the held-back list: he is the subject of stolen images and is not accused of anything.
docs.google.com/document/d/1IdVIzSr5NOi76ugu67Ob3t39K6b4Rz_P7an0Q0M9HWo/edit — ZEUS-DEV-919 working document
ronnieholtpro@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Sources
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Transcribed by hand from the link-analysis diagram attached to the post, read at full resolution in sections. The diagram is rooted at the GitHub account zeus-dev919, which is recorded here under ZEUS, and hangs this persona off an address associated with a repository under it. The researcher marks the LinkedIn profile as already down at the time of writing, and notes that the persona's photographs are taken from a named South Korean actor, who is recorded in the held-back list rather than here. The diagram also connects the persona's addresses onward to a named, publicly identifiable developer in Lagos. Nothing from that branch is published here, for the reason given in the held-back list. Note the spellings differ across the accounts and are transcribed as shown: hotcappuccinodev on GitHub, HotCappuchino on Telegram, hotcappuchino99 in the address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1914432957898793426 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Transcribed from the ZEUS-DEV-919 working document, an unsigned compilation published as a Google Doc and linked from a repository on the zeus-dev919 GitHub account. The document describes itself as raw data with no filtering applied and asks a reader to verify every linkage before acting on it, so it is carried here as that compilation's claim and not as a finding of this site. Its persona table pairs each name with the address and Skype identifier the application used. This persona is documented elsewhere in the repository already and the document is a second, independent compilation of the same accounts. It adds that the identity's profile pictures are photographs of a South Korean actor, which is why that actor stays in the held-back list: he is the subject of stolen images and is not accused of anything.
docs.google.com/document/d/1IdVIzSr5NOi76ugu67Ob3t39K6b4Rz_P7an0Q0M9HWo/edit — ZEUS-DEV-919 working document
ruikishimoto99@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Transcribed by hand from the link-analysis diagram attached to the post, read at full resolution in sections. The diagram is rooted at the GitHub account zeus-dev919, which is recorded here under ZEUS, and hangs this persona off an address associated with a repository under it. The researcher marks the LinkedIn profile as already down at the time of writing, and notes that the persona's photographs are taken from a named South Korean actor, who is recorded in the held-back list rather than here. The diagram also connects the persona's addresses onward to a named, publicly identifiable developer in Lagos. Nothing from that branch is published here, for the reason given in the held-back list. Note the spellings differ across the accounts and are transcribed as shown: hotcappuccinodev on GitHub, HotCappuchino on Telegram, hotcappuchino99 in the address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1914432957898793426 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Transcribed from the ZEUS-DEV-919 working document, an unsigned compilation published as a Google Doc and linked from a repository on the zeus-dev919 GitHub account. The document describes itself as raw data with no filtering applied and asks a reader to verify every linkage before acting on it, so it is carried here as that compilation's claim and not as a finding of this site. Its persona table pairs each name with the address and Skype identifier the application used. This persona is documented elsewhere in the repository already and the document is a second, independent compilation of the same accounts. It adds that the identity's profile pictures are photographs of a South Korean actor, which is why that actor stays in the held-back list: he is the subject of stolen images and is not accused of anything.
docs.google.com/document/d/1IdVIzSr5NOi76ugu67Ob3t39K6b4Rz_P7an0Q0M9HWo/edit — ZEUS-DEV-919 working document
https://github.com/hotcappuccinodev
github profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live
live
Sources
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Transcribed by hand from the link-analysis diagram attached to the post, read at full resolution in sections. The diagram is rooted at the GitHub account zeus-dev919, which is recorded here under ZEUS, and hangs this persona off an address associated with a repository under it. The researcher marks the LinkedIn profile as already down at the time of writing, and notes that the persona's photographs are taken from a named South Korean actor, who is recorded in the held-back list rather than here. The diagram also connects the persona's addresses onward to a named, publicly identifiable developer in Lagos. Nothing from that branch is published here, for the reason given in the held-back list. Note the spellings differ across the accounts and are transcribed as shown: hotcappuccinodev on GitHub, HotCappuchino on Telegram, hotcappuchino99 in the address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1914432957898793426 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Transcribed from the ZEUS-DEV-919 working document, an unsigned compilation published as a Google Doc and linked from a repository on the zeus-dev919 GitHub account. The document describes itself as raw data with no filtering applied and asks a reader to verify every linkage before acting on it, so it is carried here as that compilation's claim and not as a finding of this site. Its persona table pairs each name with the address and Skype identifier the application used. This persona is documented elsewhere in the repository already and the document is a second, independent compilation of the same accounts. It adds that the identity's profile pictures are photographs of a South Korean actor, which is why that actor stays in the held-back list: he is the subject of stolen images and is not accused of anything.
docs.google.com/document/d/1IdVIzSr5NOi76ugu67Ob3t39K6b4Rz_P7an0Q0M9HWo/edit — ZEUS-DEV-919 working document
https://gitlab.com/hotcappuchino99
gitlab account IT Worker Fraud CURATED live
live
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Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- hotcappuchino99 -- 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 Hot Cappuchino. The display name is kept here rather than carried as an alias, because it restates the handle, describes the work, or is too bare to be a name. 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/hotcappuchino99 — Chollima Hunter
https://medium.com/@ruikishimoto99
medium account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Transcribed by hand from the link-analysis diagram attached to the post, read at full resolution in sections. The diagram is rooted at the GitHub account zeus-dev919, which is recorded here under ZEUS, and hangs this persona off an address associated with a repository under it. The researcher marks the LinkedIn profile as already down at the time of writing, and notes that the persona's photographs are taken from a named South Korean actor, who is recorded in the held-back list rather than here. The diagram also connects the persona's addresses onward to a named, publicly identifiable developer in Lagos. Nothing from that branch is published here, for the reason given in the held-back list. Note the spellings differ across the accounts and are transcribed as shown: hotcappuccinodev on GitHub, HotCappuchino on Telegram, hotcappuchino99 in the address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1914432957898793426 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Transcribed from the ZEUS-DEV-919 working document, an unsigned compilation published as a Google Doc and linked from a repository on the zeus-dev919 GitHub account. The document describes itself as raw data with no filtering applied and asks a reader to verify every linkage before acting on it, so it is carried here as that compilation's claim and not as a finding of this site. Its persona table pairs each name with the address and Skype identifier the application used. This persona is documented elsewhere in the repository already and the document is a second, independent compilation of the same accounts. It adds that the identity's profile pictures are photographs of a South Korean actor, which is why that actor stays in the held-back list: he is the subject of stolen images and is not accused of anything.
docs.google.com/document/d/1IdVIzSr5NOi76ugu67Ob3t39K6b4Rz_P7an0Q0M9HWo/edit — ZEUS-DEV-919 working document
https://t.me/hotcappuchino
telegram account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live
live
Sources
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Transcribed by hand from the link-analysis diagram attached to the post, read at full resolution in sections. The diagram is rooted at the GitHub account zeus-dev919, which is recorded here under ZEUS, and hangs this persona off an address associated with a repository under it. The researcher marks the LinkedIn profile as already down at the time of writing, and notes that the persona's photographs are taken from a named South Korean actor, who is recorded in the held-back list rather than here. The diagram also connects the persona's addresses onward to a named, publicly identifiable developer in Lagos. Nothing from that branch is published here, for the reason given in the held-back list. Note the spellings differ across the accounts and are transcribed as shown: hotcappuccinodev on GitHub, HotCappuchino on Telegram, hotcappuchino99 in the address.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1914432957898793426 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Transcribed from the ZEUS-DEV-919 working document, an unsigned compilation published as a Google Doc and linked from a repository on the zeus-dev919 GitHub account. The document describes itself as raw data with no filtering applied and asks a reader to verify every linkage before acting on it, so it is carried here as that compilation's claim and not as a finding of this site. Its persona table pairs each name with the address and Skype identifier the application used. This persona is documented elsewhere in the repository already and the document is a second, independent compilation of the same accounts. It adds that the identity's profile pictures are photographs of a South Korean actor, which is why that actor stays in the held-back list: he is the subject of stolen images and is not accused of anything.
docs.google.com/document/d/1IdVIzSr5NOi76ugu67Ob3t39K6b4Rz_P7an0Q0M9HWo/edit — ZEUS-DEV-919 working document
Sources
- x.com/browsercookies/status/1914432957898793426 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
- docs.google.com/document/d/1IdVIzSr5NOi76ugu67Ob3t39K6b4Rz_P7an0Q0M9HWo/edit — ZEUS-DEV-919 working document
- gitlab.com/hotcappuchino99 — Chollima Hunter