https://github.com/ares-dev05

https://github.com/ares-dev05 is a GitHub account that one published source reports in connection with IT Worker Fraud activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies). The report is dated 2025-04-21.

The reporting files it under the persona ares-dev05. 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.

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

First seen 2025-04-21 · last seen 2025-04-21

Source

  • The account name is transcribed by hand from the screenshot attached to the post, a GitHub profile page carrying the handle ares-dev05 under the display name Full Stack Developer. The post states the account has direct links to Kan Bei, also known as Karl Chong, and cites Nisos research on that actor. The address codingninjaprox@gmail.com is the dominant author on the commits in this account's own GitHub repositories, recovered 2026-09-12; it is the operator's own commit address, not a forked repo's upstream author.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1914447327974318298 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “ares-dev05” · published 2025-04-21 · pulled 2026-08-30

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Account analysis

Account created2021-04-26
Repositories41 original, 7 forked
History older than the account0 repositories
Commits copied into others' repositories0
Commit identities5 addresses, 10 names; up to 9 names on one address; up to 4 addresses under one name

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From gh-fake-analyzer 1.0.2, the Ketman Project's GitHub analysis tool, run on 2026-09-30. 2 other commit addresses are held for review rather than listed. These are signals: backdated history and several commit identities are common among ordinary developers too, and an account that shows none of them is not thereby cleared.

Related indicators

Cited by the same report: x.com/browsercookies/status/1914447327974318298

Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) lists 1 other indicator in this source.

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