Zhonghua
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, Zhonghua. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.
Identifiers attributed to this persona
1 indicator the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.
| Indicator | Type | Account status |
|---|---|---|
Zhonghua |
alias |
Zhonghua
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Source
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The Rewards for Justice programme names this as one of the aliases under which North Korean IT workers obtained remote software and application development work at United States companies between about October 2020 and October 2023, using false identities belonging to more than sixty real United States persons, with Christina Chapman hosting their employer-issued laptops and handling their pay; it states the scheme generated at least $6.8 million for the DPRK and links the workers to the Munitions Industry Department. The notice publishes the alias and nothing else about it: no account, address or telephone number. It is an alias, so the real person whose name or details it may have been assembled from is not the worker. The notice describes Zhonghua as the manager of the other three rather than as a worker placed with an employer, and gives the name as a single word.
rewardsforjustice.net/rewards/north-korean-information-technology-it-workers/ — Rewards for Justice, U.S. Department of State
Sources
- rewardsforjustice.net/rewards/north-korean-information-technology-it-workers/ — Rewards for Justice, U.S. Department of State