Zhoe Ja Ryong

Also reported as: joun-099910

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, Zhoe Ja Ryong. 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 2025-07-23 · last reported 2026-09-24

Identifiers attributed to this persona

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

IndicatorTypeAccount status
Zhoe Ja Ryong alias —
joun3910@gmail.com email address —
https://github.com/joun-099910 github profile removed checked 2026-09-02
https://github.com/kai-dev777 github profile live checked 2026-09-30
https://gitlab.com/joun3910 gitlab account live checked 2026-11-08

Zhoe Ja Ryong

alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2025-07-23 · last seen 2026-09-24

Sources

  • The post separately names github.com/NeonNexus0408 as the account this persona copied its portfolio site from, and characterizes that account as DPRK. It is recorded here as a related account, not as this persona's own.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1947837619876045019 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Zhoe Ja Ryong / joun-099910” · published 2025-07-23 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- joun3910 -- 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 Joun. 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/joun3910 — Chollima Hunter · under “Zhoe Ja Ryong” · pulled 2026-09-18
  • 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 13 commits signed joun3910@gmail.com, an address browsercookies publishes for this persona, to github.com/kai-dev777, account id 211805368, created on 15 May 2025, display name 𝕂 | Sᴇɴɪᴏʀ Fᴜʟʟ-Sᴛᴀᴄᴋ 🄳🄴🅅, with 1 public repository.
    github.com/kai-dev777 — Chollima Hunter · under “Zhoe Ja Ryong” · pulled 2026-09-24

joun3910@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2025-07-23 · last seen 2026-09-24

Sources

  • The post separately names github.com/NeonNexus0408 as the account this persona copied its portfolio site from, and characterizes that account as DPRK. It is recorded here as a related account, not as this persona's own.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1947837619876045019 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Zhoe Ja Ryong / joun-099910” · published 2025-07-23 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • 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 13 commits signed joun3910@gmail.com, an address browsercookies publishes for this persona, to github.com/kai-dev777, account id 211805368, created on 15 May 2025, display name 𝕂 | Sᴇɴɪᴏʀ Fᴜʟʟ-Sᴛᴀᴄᴋ 🄳🄴🅅, with 1 public repository.
    github.com/kai-dev777 — Chollima Hunter · under “Zhoe Ja Ryong” · pulled 2026-09-24

https://github.com/joun-099910

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

First seen 2025-07-23 · last seen 2025-07-23

Source

  • The post separately names github.com/NeonNexus0408 as the account this persona copied its portfolio site from, and characterizes that account as DPRK. It is recorded here as a related account, not as this persona's own.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1947837619876045019 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Zhoe Ja Ryong / joun-099910” · published 2025-07-23 · pulled 2026-08-30

https://github.com/kai-dev777

github profile IT Worker Fraud CURATED live checked 2026-09-30

First seen 2026-09-24 · last seen 2026-09-24

Source

  • 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 13 commits signed joun3910@gmail.com, an address browsercookies publishes for this persona, to github.com/kai-dev777, account id 211805368, created on 15 May 2025, display name 𝕂 | Sᴇɴɪᴏʀ Fᴜʟʟ-Sᴛᴀᴄᴋ 🄳🄴🅅, with 1 public repository.
    github.com/kai-dev777 — Chollima Hunter · under “Zhoe Ja Ryong” · pulled 2026-09-24

https://gitlab.com/joun3910

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 -- joun3910 -- 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 Joun. 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/joun3910 — Chollima Hunter · under “Zhoe Ja Ryong” · pulled 2026-09-18

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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. Zhoe Ja Ryong as the name of the operator is the cited researcher’s assertion, repeated here as their claim.