Thomas Ray Cupples
Thomas Ray Cupples is an alias
that 2 published sources report
in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting
attributes to North Korea (DPRK).
It is cited here from Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) and Chollima Hunter.
The earliest of those reports is dated 2025-05-28 and the most recent 2026-09-18.
The reporting files it under the persona Thomas Ray Cupples, alongside 4 other identifiers attributed to the same identity. The persona page shows them together with any accounts, photographs and CV recorded under that name. A persona name is the one an account presented under, and may belong to an uninvolved person whose identity was taken.
alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED
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The post consists of the single word DPRK and this one image: a LinkedIn profile under the name Thomas (Tom) Ray Cupples, headlined as a senior software engineer in JS, TS, Python, C# and machine learning for healthcare software, located in Yuma, Tennessee, with 80 connections and a University of Tennessee Knoxville entry. A one-word caption is the thinnest assertion anything in this file rests on, and it is recorded as the researcher's, with the text quoted here so a reader can weigh it for themselves.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1927861180217045474 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Read on 18 September 2026 from GitHub's user search on the persona's name. The account thomascupples was created on 3 July 2026 and filled with thirteen repositories over 6 and 7 July 2026, among them a portfolio, a crypto price-alert tool, a bitcoin wallet API and an arbitrage bot; its profile README introduces Thomas Cupples as a Senior Full Stack Developer and Professional Technical Writer with around 17 years in web2 and web3, gives the outlook.com address as the contact, and embeds statistics images that still point at another developer's account, envoy1084, which is where the README text was copied from. The LinkedIn address was found through Google's index on the same day under the title Thomas Cupples - Senior Software Engineer, the headline in the researcher's May 2025 capture, and the page returned LinkedIn's does-not-exist notice when opened, so it is recorded as removed. A real, long-established Thomas Cupples, a Baltimore senior software engineer whose history runs through two healthcare software companies, is visible in the same search results, and the persona's claimed healthcare specialism reads as borrowed from that history; that person holds the plain thomascupples LinkedIn slug and is not this account. The name is what links this account to the rest; nothing here establishes that one person holds both, and the entry records what the account itself states.
github.com/thomascupples — Chollima Hunter
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