`https://github.com/thomascupples`

https://github.com/thomascupples 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 Chollima Hunter. The report is dated 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.

github profile IT Worker Fraud CURATED live checked 2026-09-18

First seen 2026-09-18 · last seen 2026-09-18

live checked 2026-09-18

The image is the avatar this account displays, not evidence of who operates it.

Source

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 · under “Thomas Ray Cupples” · pulled 2026-09-18

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Account analysis

Account created	2026-07-03
Repositories	13 original, 0 forked
History older than the account	13 repositories: `apidoc` (first commit 2017-03-06), `bitcoin-wallet-api` (first commit 2014-03-23), `boilerplate-react` (first commit 2017-04-27), `cytube-chat-ios` (first commit 2014-10-28), `lightbox2` (first commit 2014-03-30)
Commits copied into others' repositories	0
Commit identities	1 address, 2 names; up to 2 names on one address

Commit addresses this index holds

From gh-fake-analyzer 1.0.2, the Ketman Project's GitHub analysis tool, run on 2026-10-11. 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

Same persona record: Thomas Ray Cupples

Other identifiers the reporting files under the same persona; 3 of 4 are shown.

All 4 on the Thomas Ray Cupples page

Cited by the same report: github.com/thomascupples

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

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