devninja

Also reported as: Ninja

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, devninja. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2025-06-13

Identifiers attributed to this persona

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

IndicatorTypeAccount status
devninja alias —
Ninja alias —
https://t.me/leonk0804 telegram account live checked 2026-11-08

devninja

alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-06-13 · last seen 2025-06-13

Source

  • One of four personas the post presents side by side, each as a single dark card giving a handle, a job title, a photograph and a row of platform links. The post's text carries the accounts; the card carries the title and the face. The researcher's own shorthand names this one differently in the text than the card does, and the card's spelling is what is used here, because that is the name the identity presents. The card gives the title "React & Blockchain & Ai Engineer" and links to Telegram and LinkedIn; only the Telegram account is named in the post.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1933591202550723029 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “devninja / Ninja” · published 2025-06-13 · pulled 2026-09-16

Ninja

alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-06-13 · last seen 2025-06-13

Source

  • One of four personas the post presents side by side, each as a single dark card giving a handle, a job title, a photograph and a row of platform links. The post's text carries the accounts; the card carries the title and the face. The researcher's own shorthand names this one differently in the text than the card does, and the card's spelling is what is used here, because that is the name the identity presents. The card gives the title "React & Blockchain & Ai Engineer" and links to Telegram and LinkedIn; only the Telegram account is named in the post.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1933591202550723029 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “devninja / Ninja” · published 2025-06-13 · pulled 2026-09-16

https://t.me/leonk0804

telegram account IT Worker Fraud MATCHED IN SOURCE live checked 2026-11-08

Listed as leonk0804

First seen 2025-06-13 · last seen 2026-10-18

Sources

  • One of four personas the post presents side by side, each as a single dark card giving a handle, a job title, a photograph and a row of platform links. The post's text carries the accounts; the card carries the title and the face. The researcher's own shorthand names this one differently in the text than the card does, and the card's spelling is what is used here, because that is the name the identity presents. The card gives the title "React & Blockchain & Ai Engineer" and links to Telegram and LinkedIn; only the Telegram account is named in the post.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1933591202550723029 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “devninja / Ninja” · published 2025-06-13 · pulled 2026-09-16
  • …https://x.com/browsercookies/status/1933591202550723029 - ![](./1933591202550723029-1.png) #### Ninja - t.me/leonk0804 - https://x.com/browsercookies/status/1933591202550723029 - ![](./1933591202550723029-2.png) #### 2401 - github.com/aimachieve -…
    DPRK IT Workers — tayvano (lazarus-bluenoroff-research) · under “Ninja” · published 2025-06-19 · pulled 2026-09-01

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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. devninja as the name of the operator is the cited researcher’s assertion, repeated here as their claim.