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.

IT Worker Fraud First reported 2025-07-24 · last reported 2026-09-24

Identifiers attributed to this persona

7 indicators the sources below record for this operator, each with its sources.

IndicatorTypeAccount 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 checked 2026-09-30
https://github.com/oleksiibohatyrenko github profile removed checked 2026-09-30

Araki Sato

alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-07-24 · last seen 2025-07-24

Source

  • 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) · under “Kim Thae Gwang / Araki Sato / James Ybarra / Oleksii Bohatyrenko” · published 2025-07-24 · pulled 2026-09-16

James Ybarra

alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-07-24 · last seen 2025-07-24

Source

  • 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) · under “Kim Thae Gwang / Araki Sato / James Ybarra / Oleksii Bohatyrenko” · published 2025-07-24 · pulled 2026-09-16

Kim Thae Gwang

alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2025-07-24 · last seen 2026-09-24

Sources

  • 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) · under “Kim Thae Gwang / Araki Sato / James Ybarra / Oleksii Bohatyrenko” · published 2025-07-24 · pulled 2026-09-16
  • 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 · under “Kim Thae Gwang” · pulled 2026-09-24

Oleksii Bohatyrenko

alias IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-07-24 · last seen 2025-07-24

Source

  • 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) · under “Kim Thae Gwang / Araki Sato / James Ybarra / Oleksii Bohatyrenko” · published 2025-07-24 · pulled 2026-09-16

oleksiibohatyrenko2@gmail.com

email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2025-07-24 · last seen 2026-09-24

Sources

  • 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) · under “Kim Thae Gwang / Araki Sato / James Ybarra / Oleksii Bohatyrenko” · published 2025-07-24 · pulled 2026-09-16
  • 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 · under “Kim Thae Gwang” · pulled 2026-09-24

https://github.com/fantasy-3136

github profile IT Worker Fraud CURATED removed checked 2026-09-30

First seen 2026-09-24 · last seen 2026-09-24

Source

  • 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 · under “Kim Thae Gwang” · pulled 2026-09-24

https://github.com/oleksiibohatyrenko

github profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST removed checked 2026-09-30

First seen 2025-07-24 · last seen 2025-07-24

Source

  • 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) · under “Kim Thae Gwang / Araki Sato / James Ybarra / Oleksii Bohatyrenko” · published 2025-07-24 · pulled 2026-09-16

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