ares-dev05

A fabricated professional identity used in the DPRK remote IT-worker scheme. Everything below is transcribed from the cited post, in which a named researcher attributes these accounts to a single operator, ares-dev05. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2025-04-21

Profiles and evidence

Identifiers attributed to this persona

2 indicators the source attributes to this operator, each with its sources.

IndicatorTypeAccount status
codingninjaprox@gmail.com email address —
https://github.com/ares-dev05 github profile live checked 2026-09-02

codingninjaprox@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

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

https://github.com/ares-dev05

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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Disclaimer An entry here is not proof of DPRK affiliation or wrongdoing. A listed name, account or address may belong to an uninvolved person, so each entry is a lead to verify independently. What inclusion means. ares-dev05 as the name of the operator is the cited researcher’s assertion, repeated here as their claim.