`Banana`

Banana is an alias that 3 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 2025-04-23 and the most recent 2026-09-29.

The reporting files it under the persona Banana, alongside 10 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

First seen 2025-04-23 · last seen 2026-09-29

Sources

The researcher notes that the name Banana also appears in a daily work summary sheet among documents leaked from the group, which is why he singles this identity out; one of the attached images is that sheet, headed BANANA DAILY SUM-UP and logging job-application counts and working hours of ten to fifteen a day through January 2023. The GitHub account, address, Telegram handle and site are transcribed by hand from a second attached screenshot of the profile page, which carries the display name BitBanana over the handle BitFancy.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1915115006502568198 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Banana / Alric Bauer / BitBanana / BitFancy” · published 2025-04-23 · pulled 2026-08-30
Read on 20 September 2026 by walking the commit history of every repository on the GitHub account github.com/BitFancy, already held under this persona, and tallying the author line on every commit. A commit's author line is what the holder configured their git client with rather than anything the profile page chooses to display, so it recovers addresses the account never states. The addresses recorded here were not already in this index: alricbauer422031@gmail.com authored 1834 commits across 47 of its repositories, commits as "BitFancy"; jackpassiondev07@gmail.com authored 1 commit across the repository BitFancy/Solana-Mev-Bot-Optimize, commits as "bitfancy". Each is admitted because it commits under a name the account itself uses, which is the test that separates the holder's own address from the original author of a repository copied in. Addresses belonging to unrelated developers whose work appears in these repositories are deliberately not recorded, and an address is evidence that whoever held it wrote those commits rather than proof of who holds the account.
github.com/BitFancy — Chollima Hunter · under “Banana” · pulled 2026-09-20
Found on 29 September 2026 by searching GitHub's code for the handles this site already holds for the persona (bitfancy) and reading the files that name them: contact blocks, profile READMEs and portfolio data in the persona's own repositories or in repositories that credit its accounts. Each value is cited to the file it was read from. Values in copied templates, client team pages and test data are not carried.
github.com/BitFancy/Solana-Mev-Bot-Optimize/blob/2a94be8cc7ce3c163a21e30365015a8a85691042/README.md — Chollima Hunter · under “Banana” · published 2025-02-21 · pulled 2026-09-29

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Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 8 of 10 are shown.

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Cited by the same report: x.com/browsercookies/status/1915115006502568198

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Cited by the same report: github.com/BitFancy

Chollima Hunter lists 2 other indicators in this source. 1 are shown, chosen across types.

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