Oleksii Taranenko

Also reported as: Oleksii9999

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, Oleksii Taranenko. 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 2025-08-01 · last reported 2026-09-20

Profiles and evidence

Identifiers attributed to this persona

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

IndicatorTypeAccount status
Oleksii Taranenko alias —
kaize3.com domain —
glorychina6@outlook.com email address —
https://github.com/oleksii9999 github profile live checked 2026-09-02

Oleksii Taranenko

alias IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2025-08-01 · last seen 2026-09-20

Sources

  • Transcribed by hand from the screenshot published in the cited post, read at full resolution rather than from a thumbnail. The screenshot shows the display name Oleksii Taranenko over the GitHub handle Oleksii9999, a bio reading "I thrive on building interactive bots that enhance user experiences and streamline processes.", a stated location of Dnipro, Ukraine, 3 followers against 2 following, and a linked website of kaize3.com. The second cited post names this account and identifies kstar0102 as one of its followers.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1951108033427460326 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Oleksii Taranenko / Oleksii9999” · published 2025-08-01 · pulled 2026-08-30
  • Read on 20 September 2026 by walking the commit history of every repository on the GitHub account github.com/Oleksii9999, already held under this persona, and tallying the author line on every commit. A commit's author line is what the holder configured their git client with rather than anything the profile page chooses to display, so it recovers addresses the account never states. The address recorded here was not already in this index: glorychina6@outlook.com authored 677 commits across 13 of its repositories, commits as "Oleksii9999". Each is admitted because it commits under a name the account itself uses, which is the test that separates the holder's own address from the original author of a repository copied in. Addresses belonging to unrelated developers whose work appears in these repositories are deliberately not recorded, and an address is evidence that whoever held it wrote those commits rather than proof of who holds the account.
    github.com/Oleksii9999 — Chollima Hunter · under “Oleksii Taranenko” · pulled 2026-09-20

kaize3.com

domain IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST

First seen 2025-08-01 · last seen 2025-08-01

Registration

The registry had no record of kaize3.com when it was looked up on 2026-10-05: the registration had lapsed or been deleted.

Source

  • Transcribed by hand from the screenshot published in the cited post, read at full resolution rather than from a thumbnail. The screenshot shows the display name Oleksii Taranenko over the GitHub handle Oleksii9999, a bio reading "I thrive on building interactive bots that enhance user experiences and streamline processes.", a stated location of Dnipro, Ukraine, 3 followers against 2 following, and a linked website of kaize3.com. The second cited post names this account and identifies kstar0102 as one of its followers.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1951108033427460326 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Oleksii Taranenko / Oleksii9999” · published 2025-08-01 · pulled 2026-08-30

glorychina6@outlook.com

email address IT Worker Fraud CURATED

First seen 2026-09-20 · last seen 2026-09-20

Source

  • Read on 20 September 2026 by walking the commit history of every repository on the GitHub account github.com/Oleksii9999, already held under this persona, and tallying the author line on every commit. A commit's author line is what the holder configured their git client with rather than anything the profile page chooses to display, so it recovers addresses the account never states. The address recorded here was not already in this index: glorychina6@outlook.com authored 677 commits across 13 of its repositories, commits as "Oleksii9999". Each is admitted because it commits under a name the account itself uses, which is the test that separates the holder's own address from the original author of a repository copied in. Addresses belonging to unrelated developers whose work appears in these repositories are deliberately not recorded, and an address is evidence that whoever held it wrote those commits rather than proof of who holds the account.
    github.com/Oleksii9999 — Chollima Hunter · under “Oleksii Taranenko” · pulled 2026-09-20

https://github.com/oleksii9999

github profile IT Worker Fraud RESEARCHER POST live checked 2026-09-02

First seen 2025-08-01 · last seen 2025-08-01

Source

  • Transcribed by hand from the screenshot published in the cited post, read at full resolution rather than from a thumbnail. The screenshot shows the display name Oleksii Taranenko over the GitHub handle Oleksii9999, a bio reading "I thrive on building interactive bots that enhance user experiences and streamline processes.", a stated location of Dnipro, Ukraine, 3 followers against 2 following, and a linked website of kaize3.com. The second cited post names this account and identifies kstar0102 as one of its followers.
    x.com/browsercookies/status/1951108033427460326 — Cookie Connoisseur (@browsercookies) · under “Oleksii Taranenko / Oleksii9999” · published 2025-08-01 · pulled 2026-08-30

Sources

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