Ben Barker
Ben Barker is an alias
that 4 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 2025-05-17 and the most recent 2026-09-24.
The reporting files it under the persona Ben Barker, alongside 5 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
Sources
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Published on 17 May 2025 in a thread the researcher opened with "Lets play a profile picture game! Here are a few fun DPRK ITW/remote worker profile pics and their associated emails." Each post in it pairs one address with the profile photograph used alongside it. This entry is one such post: the address benbarker0311@gmail.com and the picture below it. The photograph is mirrored here because these posts are the only published record of the face an operator presented, and the accounts they came from are routinely deleted. It is not evidence of who operates the address: a profile picture in this dataset is as likely to be generated, stock, or taken from an uninvolved person. The name is this site reading the address, not a name the researcher gave: the post pairs an address with a picture and attributes neither to anybody.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1923880472318443529 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Found on 18 September 2026 by taking the local part of an address this index already holds for this operator -- benbarker0311 -- 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 Ben Barker. 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/benbarker0311 — Chollima Hunter -
Found on 18 September 2026 by putting benbarker0311, the GitLab login the index already holds for this persona, to Maigret's username search and then asking Freelancer's public user endpoint, which answers with the account record and, for a name that does not exist, with nothing. Freelancer returns the account with the display name Closed User and a registration date of 3 March 2022: an account existed under the handle and has since been closed, which is recorded here because a closed account is still a registration, and the date is the one fact it states. The handle 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.
www.freelancer.com/u/benbarker0311 — Chollima Hunter -
Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for the address browsercookies published for this persona in the profile-picture thread of 17 May 2025. GitHub mints a noreply address from an account's immutable numeric id, in the form id+handle@users.noreply.github.com, so a former handle is a matter of record; and GitHub attributes a commit to whichever account has its address registered, which only the address's holder can do. github.com/Gentleeman is account id 86507173, created on 26 June 2021, display name Gentleman, with 77 public repositories. Its noreply addresses show it was previously named benbarker0311, the persona's address as a handle, and ksanalex. Fifty-five of its repositories hold 93 commits signed benbarker0311@gmail.com, dated June 2021 to June 2024. GitHub now attributes that address to github.com/BenBBarker, account id 220992038, created on 16 July 2025 with no repositories, so the address was registered to a fresh, empty account after the older one stopped using it.
github.com/Gentleeman — Chollima Hunter
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