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.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2025-04-21

Profiles and evidence

LinkedIn accounts

Identifiers reported alongside

10 indicators the sources below record for this operator, each with its sources.

IndicatorTypeAccount 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 checked 2026-09-02
https://gitlab.com/hotcappuchino99 gitlab account live checked 2026-11-08
https://medium.com/@ruikishimoto99 medium account not checked
https://t.me/hotcappuchino telegram account live checked 2026-11-08

Hot Cappuchino

alias IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • 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 · under “Rui Kishimoto / Hot Cappuchino / Ronnie Holt” · pulled 2026-09-09

Ronnie Holt

alias IT Worker Fraud THIRD-PARTY REGISTRY

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • 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 · under “Rui Kishimoto / Hot Cappuchino / Ronnie Holt” · pulled 2026-09-09

Rui Kishimoto

alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2025-04-21 · last seen 2025-04-21

Sources

  • 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) · under “Rui Kishimoto / HotCappuchino / hotcappuccinodev” · published 2025-04-21 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • 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 · under “Rui Kishimoto / Hot Cappuchino / Ronnie Holt” · pulled 2026-09-09
  • 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 · under “Rui Kishimoto” · pulled 2026-09-18

hotcappuchino99@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-04-21 · last seen 2025-04-21

Sources

  • 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) · under “Rui Kishimoto / HotCappuchino / hotcappuccinodev” · published 2025-04-21 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • 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 · under “Rui Kishimoto / Hot Cappuchino / Ronnie Holt” · pulled 2026-09-09

ronnieholtpro@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-04-21 · last seen 2025-04-21

Sources

  • 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) · under “Rui Kishimoto / HotCappuchino / hotcappuccinodev” · published 2025-04-21 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • 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 · under “Rui Kishimoto / Hot Cappuchino / Ronnie Holt” · pulled 2026-09-09

ruikishimoto99@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-04-21 · last seen 2025-04-21

Sources

  • 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) · under “Rui Kishimoto / HotCappuchino / hotcappuccinodev” · published 2025-04-21 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • 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 · under “Rui Kishimoto / Hot Cappuchino / Ronnie Holt” · pulled 2026-09-09

https://github.com/hotcappuccinodev

github profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live checked 2026-09-02

First seen 2025-04-21 · last seen 2025-04-21

Sources

  • 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) · under “Rui Kishimoto / HotCappuchino / hotcappuccinodev” · published 2025-04-21 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • 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 · under “Rui Kishimoto / Hot Cappuchino / Ronnie Holt” · pulled 2026-09-09

https://gitlab.com/hotcappuchino99

gitlab account IT Worker Fraud CURATED live checked 2026-11-08

First seen unknown · last seen unknown

Source

  • 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 · under “Rui Kishimoto” · pulled 2026-09-18

https://medium.com/@ruikishimoto99

medium account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-04-21 · last seen 2025-04-21

Sources

  • 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) · under “Rui Kishimoto / HotCappuchino / hotcappuccinodev” · published 2025-04-21 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • 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 · under “Rui Kishimoto / Hot Cappuchino / Ronnie Holt” · pulled 2026-09-09

https://t.me/hotcappuchino

telegram account IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live checked 2026-11-08

First seen 2025-04-21 · last seen 2025-04-21

Sources

  • 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) · under “Rui Kishimoto / HotCappuchino / hotcappuccinodev” · published 2025-04-21 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • 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 · under “Rui Kishimoto / Hot Cappuchino / Ronnie Holt” · 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. Rui Kishimoto as the name of the operator is the cited researcher’s assertion, repeated here as their claim.