Kim Thae Gwang
Also reported as: Araki SatoJames YbarraOleksii Bohatyrenko
A fabricated professional identity used in the DPRK remote IT-worker scheme. Most of what follows is transcribed from the cited post, in which a named researcher attributes these accounts to a single operator, Kim Thae Gwang. The attribution is theirs, not this site's.
The remainder was read by this site from the account itself and is cited to the page and date it was read.
Identifiers attributed to this persona
7 indicators the sources below record for this operator, each with its sources.
| Indicator | Type | Account status |
|---|---|---|
Araki Sato |
alias | |
James Ybarra |
alias | |
Kim Thae Gwang |
alias | |
Oleksii Bohatyrenko |
alias | |
oleksiibohatyrenko2@gmail.com |
email address | |
https://github.com/fantasy-3136 |
github profile | removed |
https://github.com/oleksiibohatyrenko |
github profile | removed |
Araki Sato
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Read from the table image the post carries, rather than from its text. The post is the head of the thread whose later parts this file already cites: those parts restate the table in plain text, and the cells transcribed here are the ones no part reached. The researcher's own layout is what supplies the attribution -- a cell is headed with a Korean name and lists the aliases, accounts and addresses filed under it. The table writes the name without spaces, as KimThaeGwang, and annotates the third alias "claims Ukrainian" -- that is the researcher describing a nationality the persona asserts, not a statement about a real Ukrainian of that name.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1948426426145005680 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
James Ybarra
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
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Read from the table image the post carries, rather than from its text. The post is the head of the thread whose later parts this file already cites: those parts restate the table in plain text, and the cells transcribed here are the ones no part reached. The researcher's own layout is what supplies the attribution -- a cell is headed with a Korean name and lists the aliases, accounts and addresses filed under it. The table writes the name without spaces, as KimThaeGwang, and annotates the third alias "claims Ukrainian" -- that is the researcher describing a nationality the persona asserts, not a statement about a real Ukrainian of that name.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1948426426145005680 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
Kim Thae Gwang
alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED
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Read from the table image the post carries, rather than from its text. The post is the head of the thread whose later parts this file already cites: those parts restate the table in plain text, and the cells transcribed here are the ones no part reached. The researcher's own layout is what supplies the attribution -- a cell is headed with a Korean name and lists the aliases, accounts and addresses filed under it. The table writes the name without spaces, as KimThaeGwang, and annotates the third alias "claims Ukrainian" -- that is the researcher describing a nationality the persona asserts, not a statement about a real Ukrainian of that name.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1948426426145005680 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for published persona addresses and reading which account GitHub attributes the commits to. GitHub credits a commit to the account that has the signing address registered and verified, which only the holder of the mailbox can do, so an attributed account is one the address's holder controls, whichever repository the commits sit in and whenever the address was added. Counts are of the commits GitHub's search returns, up to 100. GitHub attributes 1 commit signed oleksiibohatyrenko2@gmail.com, an address browsercookies publishes for this persona, to the login fantasy-3136, which no longer resolves.
github.com/fantasy-3136 — Chollima Hunter
Oleksii Bohatyrenko
alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST
Source
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Read from the table image the post carries, rather than from its text. The post is the head of the thread whose later parts this file already cites: those parts restate the table in plain text, and the cells transcribed here are the ones no part reached. The researcher's own layout is what supplies the attribution -- a cell is headed with a Korean name and lists the aliases, accounts and addresses filed under it. The table writes the name without spaces, as KimThaeGwang, and annotates the third alias "claims Ukrainian" -- that is the researcher describing a nationality the persona asserts, not a statement about a real Ukrainian of that name.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1948426426145005680 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
oleksiibohatyrenko2@gmail.com
email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED
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Read from the table image the post carries, rather than from its text. The post is the head of the thread whose later parts this file already cites: those parts restate the table in plain text, and the cells transcribed here are the ones no part reached. The researcher's own layout is what supplies the attribution -- a cell is headed with a Korean name and lists the aliases, accounts and addresses filed under it. The table writes the name without spaces, as KimThaeGwang, and annotates the third alias "claims Ukrainian" -- that is the researcher describing a nationality the persona asserts, not a statement about a real Ukrainian of that name.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1948426426145005680 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) -
Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for published persona addresses and reading which account GitHub attributes the commits to. GitHub credits a commit to the account that has the signing address registered and verified, which only the holder of the mailbox can do, so an attributed account is one the address's holder controls, whichever repository the commits sit in and whenever the address was added. Counts are of the commits GitHub's search returns, up to 100. GitHub attributes 1 commit signed oleksiibohatyrenko2@gmail.com, an address browsercookies publishes for this persona, to the login fantasy-3136, which no longer resolves.
github.com/fantasy-3136 — Chollima Hunter
https://github.com/fantasy-3136
github profile IT Worker Fraud CURATED removed
removed
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Found on 24 September 2026 by searching GitHub's commit index for published persona addresses and reading which account GitHub attributes the commits to. GitHub credits a commit to the account that has the signing address registered and verified, which only the holder of the mailbox can do, so an attributed account is one the address's holder controls, whichever repository the commits sit in and whenever the address was added. Counts are of the commits GitHub's search returns, up to 100. GitHub attributes 1 commit signed oleksiibohatyrenko2@gmail.com, an address browsercookies publishes for this persona, to the login fantasy-3136, which no longer resolves.
github.com/fantasy-3136 — Chollima Hunter
https://github.com/oleksiibohatyrenko
github profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST removed
removed
Source
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Read from the table image the post carries, rather than from its text. The post is the head of the thread whose later parts this file already cites: those parts restate the table in plain text, and the cells transcribed here are the ones no part reached. The researcher's own layout is what supplies the attribution -- a cell is headed with a Korean name and lists the aliases, accounts and addresses filed under it. The table writes the name without spaces, as KimThaeGwang, and annotates the third alias "claims Ukrainian" -- that is the researcher describing a nationality the persona asserts, not a statement about a real Ukrainian of that name.
x.com/browsercookies/status/1948426426145005680 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
Sources
- x.com/browsercookies/status/1948426426145005680 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies)
- github.com/fantasy-3136 — Chollima Hunter