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This Week in OSINT

• FBI releases annual internet crime complaint report. Read Press Release. Read Annual Report.

Read, Watch & Listen

• Read They Researched Their Victims on Zillow Before Kicking Down the Door

• Read Croatia’s Football Team Signed Deal With Gambling Sponsor Whose Rep Used Fake Name

• Read ‘Snoopy’, ‘Adolf’ and ‘Password’: The Hungarian Government Passwords Exposed Online

• Read The War You’re Not Allowed to See: How the UAE Rewrites the Story of Iranian Strikes

• Read Tips for Investigating Right-Wing Influencers and Podcasters

• Read How Journalists Can Fight Back Against the Rising Tide of Money Laundering

• Read Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

• Read How Does AI-Enhanced Images Help Identify Military Targets in Iran?

• Read Tracking a Stolen Shipment: A Fictional Case Study of the KitKat Theft

• Read Modern OSINT | From Easter Eggs to Extra Cheese

• Read What “Do Your Own Research” Actually Means

• Read What Critical Infrastructure Teaches Us About Enduring OSINT Capability

• Read The Real Value of AI May Be in Workflows, Not Tasks

• Watch Incognito Web Browsing Is NOT Private! (Well...Sort Of)

• Watch OSINT Like a Boss with Alethe Denis

• Watch How to Track Hackers Using OSINT: TryHackMe Operation Slither Walkthrough

• Watch Unmasking AI Nudifier Networks: OSINT Techniques from Bellingcat’s Kolina Koltai

• Watch Video Analysis Shows Two Waves of Bombings in Iran Elementary School Strike

• Watch Can You Solve This Real SOC Investigation? (I’ll Give You the Logs)

• Listen 462: LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing

• Listen Tracking the traffickeres by StageTalks with BellingCat

Newsletter Spotlight

• published Fact-Checking on the Eve of April Fool’s Day

• published Catching AI in videos

OSINT Toolbox

1. NimbusQuery - A structured methodology for cloud infrastructure reconnaissance. Read more here.

2. Fact Check Database - Search debunked images from Reuters, Snopes, PolitiFact, AFP, BOOM Live, Lead Stories, Full Fact and 100+ fact-checkers worldwide. Covering 2025-04 to 2026-04, updated daily.

3. ShareTrace - Reveal the identity behind a share link

4. TLDSweep - a domain intelligence OSINT tool that sweeps 800+ TLDs to find registered variants of a domain, flag newly registered lookalikes, and alert via Telegram and Discord.

Mystery Box

• Claude skills for journalism - A curated collection of Claude Code skills designed for journalists, researchers, academics, media professionals, and communications practitioners.

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This Week in OSINT

• Global cybercrime crackdown: over 373 000 dark web sites shut down by German Authorities and Europol.

• A technical glitch in Companies House allowed logged-in users to view and even edit other companies’ records — including sensitive data such as directors’ home addresses and emails.

• OSINT IRL - a YouTube channel by Plessas Network, some good content worth exploring.

• GIJN published an awesome guide, Tech Focus Project.

Read, Watch & Listen

• Read Reddit: An In-Depth Guide to Searching and Monitoring

• Read Blueprint for Bluesky: An OSINT Guide

• Read Your OSINT Is Only as Good as Your Thinking

• Read How Wildlife Traffickers Are Using Coded Language to Sell Protected Animals On Facebook

• Read Total Defense and OSINT: The Role of Citizens in Modern Warfare

• Read Maritime Intelligence: An Overview

• Read Why AI-Driven Social Threat Detection Can’t Be Ignored

• Read Invisible Intelligence: Navigating the Risks of Unsanctioned AI in Digital Investigations

Newsletter Spotlight

• published Detectives, Detectors and Deceptions on what AI detectors get right, get wrong, and miss.

• published Retrospective! A Free OSINT Lesson: Why RUMINT is the Unsung Hero of Intelligence Gathering.

• published Finding fake followers, TikTok edition.

• published Why AI Makes Content Moderation Better, Not Worse.

• published New Data Journalism Resources from NICAR 26.

• Watch gaslighting geoguessr pros by RAINBOLT

• Watch Why these Irish cartel bosses are still free by Bellingcat.

• Listen to Alligator in the Boat | E102 by NeedleStack Podcast

OSINT Toolbox

1. UsernameScanner - another web based tool similar to whatsmyname (gives false negatives and false positives results).

2. CrowdCounter - Upload a photo, select the area with people in it, and answer a couple of questions to estimate how many people are in the photo by

Mystery Box

Global Organized Crime Index is an innovative tool designed to measure levels of organized crime in a country and assess their resilience to organized-criminal activity.

Register to attend a free webinar by Craig Silverman on 16th April, The best free or cheap digital investigative/OSINT tools to use right now.

OSINT Practice Platforms from Simulation to Real-World Impact - View a curated selection of platforms that support investigative skill development.

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This Week in OSINT

• Read this awesome LinkedIn post, I Used to Say Bad Analysts Collect Tools. Now They Build Dashboards.

• Explore Key tools review by Cartel Watch for Mexican OSINT.

• Our friends at Ubikron creation a collection of OSINT CTS.

Read, Watch & Listen

• Read Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?, An OSINT investigation report by KrebsOnSecurity.

• Read OSINT Chinese Companies: How to Investigate Corporate Networks Beyond the Great Firewall

• Read Under-16s Social Media Ban: OSINT and Its Implications by OSINT Combine.

• Read How to Hide Your Boat about investigating shell companies associated with boats.

• Read GHOST: Where OSINT Data Finally Gets Organized!!! about GHOST OSINT CRM.

• Read From OSINT to Exploit: Uncovering Auth Bypass and Leaked Credentials showing how OSINT is used in pentesting by Synack.

• Read The Advantages of OSINT Tool Consolidation by SkopeNow.

• Watch Why Tor and VPNs Don’t Save Hackers by Anon_ali about opsec failures.

• Watch Telegram OSINT 101 about OSINT bots.

• Watch Unboxing SITDECK--a browser-based OSINT tool

• Listen EP 171: Melody Fraud by Darknet Diaries about frauds in streaming platforms.

• Listen 457: How a cybersecurity boss framed his own employee by Smashing Security.

• Listen E101 | Navigating the Ransomware Negotiation Landscape by Needle Stack.

Newsletter Spotlight

• Secrets of Privacy published The Age Verification Bills Are Bigger Than You Think.

OSINT Toolbox

1. Shadow broker - Self-hosted worldwide events monitoring map and dashboard.

2. Video Search Engine - Free online tool to search for videos on different platforms: YouTube, TikTok, VK, Youku, Netflix, Vimeo and many others.(It is based on Google CSE)

3. PlaceSpotter - Know exactly where a photo was taken instantly (One more geophotolocation tool).

Mystery Box

OSINT Spain - A collection of useful resources for osint investigations in Spain or person residing or citizen of Spain.

Hashclue - The world's first cryptographically committed investigative intelligence game. Read more.

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This Week in OSINT

• Learn how to Find the exact date and time a Google Maps review was posted. Read full post.

• started his own newsletter on substack, .

Read, Watch & Listen

• Read Uncovering Schemes Worth Billions: Inside the Belarusian Investigative Center

• Read The tequila heist that exposed supply chain fraud – and the fake companies behind it

• Read The role of technology and gathering ‘OSINT’ in preparation for the safe policing of special events

• Read OSINT in Civil Law: Shifting from Prosecution to Compensation

• Read Australian OSINT Symposium Capture-the-Flag Walkthrough Part I

• Watch Learn OSINT! by John Hammond.

• Watch OSINT At Home #27 – How to Track Wars, Disasters & Ships at Night

• Listen to What is GEOINT in OSINT? | E92 by NeedleStack

• Listen to EP 164: Oak Cliff Swipers by Darknet Diaries

Newsletter Spotlight

• published, OSINT Field Notes #1.

• published, How ProPublica Exposed a Flawed AI Tool ‘Munching’ Hundreds of Veteran Contracts.

OSINT Toolbox

1. NASA Worldview - an alternative to Google Earth, provides the capability to interactively browse over 1000 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and then download the underlying data.

2. Xplore - A tool for generating Twitter search queries to find tweets in a specific location (like BirdHunt).

Mystery Box

Tips and Tools for Uncovering Online Scams, a Free webinar by GIJN on Oct 28, 2025 06:30 PM in India. Register here.

WhenTaken - An online game that tests not only geolocation skills, but also chronolocation skills. You have to guess not only the place where the photo was taken, but also the year.

Awesome AI OSINT - A list of articles, videos, and tools related to the use of AI for OSINT.

The Oceans Investigations Guide by GIJN.

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Artemis Auditor is a desktop application built for OSINT analysts, investigators, and journalists who need to make sense of large volumes of unstructured data. Whether it’s Office documents, PDFs, TXT files, or even entire email mailboxes, Auditor transforms them into a fully searchable, offline knowledge base — keeping your sensitive data 100% private.

✨ Key Highlights:

• AI-powered entity extraction: Instantly identify names, organizations, emails, IBANs & more.

• Advanced search & queries: Run powerful lookups across all your indexed data.

• Link visualization: Automatically map relationships or manually build your own connections, similar to i2 Analyst’s Notebook.

🔎 Perfect for:

• Analyzing leak dumps (PSTs, CSVs, PDFs)

• Researching persons and companies in depth

• Building your own private data intelligence hub

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This Week in OSINT

• SANS annoucned OSINT Summit 2026. See Details.

• View recording of Sayari Masterclass: Shining a Light on Shadow Fleets

Read, Watch & Listen

• Read 8 Tips to Improve Your Reverse Image Search Results

• Read Step-by-Step OSINT Roadmap for Investigating Videos

• Read Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions

• Read The essential handbook for AI detection: seven strategies to identify digital fakes

• Read 5 Years of Running an OSINT Business… What’s it Like?

• Read Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms

• Read Australian Cocaine Pilot Killed in Brazil Plane Crash Linked to Kinahan Drug Cartel

• Read Incendiary Munitions Strike Gaza-bound Flotilla Two Nights in a Row

• Read Like Clockwork: An Orange Wall Exposes Yet Another Active Club ‘Fight Night’

• Read OSINT: The Internet of Bodies — A Target Centric Approach

• Read The Role of OSINT in Disaster Response and Recovery

• Watch Exploring the Dark Web

• Watch OSINT At Home #26: Top 5 hacks to find deleted websites, posts and secret changes

• Watch How to make beautiful OSINT map graphics

• Watch Fact-Check & OSINT Review #11

• Watch How to Archive the Web - Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver Tool

• Listen “Tracking Suspicious Ships” with Christian Panton by StageTalks with Bellingcat.

• Listen E91 | Ransomware’s collateral damage by NeedleStack

Newsletter Spotlight

published Why We Trust Famous Faces.

published Safari’s Secret Weapon: Unlock Its Built In Advanced Privacy Settings.

published The essential handbook for AI detection: seven strategies to identify digital fakes.

OSINT Toolbox

1. Councilon - Perform a Real People Check with a Councilon People Search Engine and get detailed information about anyone in the United States. Councilon analyzes hundreds of millions of people-related data in the U.S.

2. Kwold - Try looking for a partner, a family friend, a famous person, yourself, or somebody else you might know.

3. Vericora - find in-depth and up-to-date info on just about every adult in the U.S.

Credit goes to and Dennis Keefe

Mystery Box

OSINT Handbook - An index of OSINT tools and resources curated by the team at i-Intelligence GmbH.

Legendary OSINT by K2OSINT - Github repo with with hundreds of #osint tools in different categories: people search, aviation, reverse image search, dark web etc

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OSINTCon 2.0, organised by OSINT Ambition in partnership with TOVEK, is back on popular demand. This time we have more amazing speakers, more amazing talks and some surprises too. The conference will be on 1st and 2nd November 2025, 10 AM to 8 PM GMT with a break in between. Claim your VIP pass now at https://osintconference.com/
(Call for Speaker is also open now, apply on the website.)

This Week in OSINT

• GitHub started deleting certain repositories containing data about the dark web, hacking, OSINT, etc. So, as a safety precaution, make a copy of your info on GitLab. Many OSINTers, like Scully, have already shifted to GitLab.

• We just launched an OSINT Forum where OSINTers can freely share their ideas, opinions and discuss without worrying about their privacy and security. Join us now at forum.osintambition.org. Be the first one to post. (Feel free to give suggestions for making it better.)

• UK OSINT Community organized a webinar on Information Laundromat: Tracking Misinformation and Disinformation Online. Watch the recording now.

Read, Watch & Listen

• Read Stop Calling It OSINT

• Read Updated Test of 24 LLMs for Geolocation

• Read Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content

• Read Can Flipper Zero really steal your car? (Spoiler: NO)

• Read Why AI Agreeableness Poses Risks to OSINT Work

• Read What is in the Jeffrey Epstein Files, and can OSINT Reveal the Answer?

• Read OSINT in Insurance: Evolving From Tools to Frameworks

• Read GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work

• Read The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft

• Read A Guide To Monitoring Conflict Amidst a Sea of Misinformation

• Watch OSINT and Public Speaking with Mishaal Khan.

• Watch The Internet's Most Asked OSINT Questions

• Listen E89 | Adding Agentic AI to analysis by NeedleStack

• Listen OSINT and the changing character of warfare by James Intelligence.

• Listen Building Tools for Research with Galen Reich by StageTalks with Bellingcat.

Newsletter Spotlight

• Published: Exposing AI Manipulation in Fast Fashion.

• Published: A Free OSINT Lesson: Being a Defense Attorney is Hard.

• Published: A Journalist's Toolkit for the AI Era.

OSINT Toolbox

• Meawfy - Search and discover files from Mega.nz with our intelligent crawler technology. Access over 9 million indexed files instantly.

• Flightera - Free historical flight data from 2017. Search by arrival and departure airports, time, and date.

• Social Search CSE - Google Custom Search engine for searching in 17 different social media: Facebook, OK, VK, Linkedin, Telegram, TenChat and others.

• Awesome Search Queries - Large list (30K+ lines) of search queries for searching servers with various vulnerabilities or installed software(For Google, Shodan, FOFA).

• Facebook Catalogue - A free online tool for finding the most popular and active pages on Facebook in different countries and topics. Useful for news monitoring and other tasks.

• First YouTube Comment Finder - The first comments on posts and videos are often left by the author's close friends. Therefore, finding them can be useful for investigations on all social networks.

• Copyright Public Records System Search - A large database of all records on registered copyrights in the USA🇺🇸. Useful for gathering information about a person or company.

  (Credit for this section goes to )

Mystery Box

Read this five-part series on OSINT fundamentals by @sinwindie -

1. The OSINT Intelligence Cycle Part 1: Planning and Direction

2. OSINT & The Intelligence Cycle Part II: Lets Talk About Collection

3. OSINT & The Intelligence Cycle Part III: Processing Raw Intelligence

4. OSINT & The Intelligence Cycle Part IV: Analysis and Production

5. OSINT & The Intelligence Cycle Part Five: Dissemination

Read this excellent guide by GIJN, Guide to Investigating Social Media Algorithms.

Read this other excellent guide by , The Chrome Privacy Checklist: 6 Settings You Need to Change Right Now.

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OSINTCon 2.0, organised by OSINT Ambition in partnership with TOVEK, is back on popular demand. This time we have more amazing speakers, more amazing talks and some surprises too. The conference will be on 1st and 2nd November 2025, 10 AM to 8 PM GMT with a break in between. Claim your VIP pass now at https://osintconference.com/
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This Week in OSINT

• WhatsApp is getting ads in the updated tab. Official Docs

• Instagram’s new Map feature shares your location in real time. Official Docs

Read, Watch & Listen

• Read LLMs vs. Geolocation: GPT-5 performs worse than other AI models

• Read A Chinese Fentanyl Smuggling Network’s Footprints in Japan.

• Read The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence.

• Read What Can Open Sources Reveal About Beijing’s Deadly Floods?

• Read GROKINT – Using Grok AI for X OSINT.

• Read Mobile Phishers Target Brokerage Accounts in ‘Ramp and Dump’ Cashout Scheme.

• Watch WHY 2025 - Stealth Web Scraping Techniques for OSINT

• Listen to NeedleStack’s new episode, Intelligence tradecraft in the digital age | E87

• Listen to the first episode of The OSINT Podcast, Episode 1 – OSINT in Action: From Counterterrorism to Chinese Content.

• Listen to the new episode by James Intelligence Podcast on US-Mexico border security.

• Listen to the new episode of StageTalk with Bellingcat, Speaking of Violence with Leyla Hussein.

• Listen to this podcast episode, How to Operationalise OSINT in the Defence Sector.

Newsletter Spotlight

• published VSCO: The Not-So-Safe Space, describing how it can be used in an Investigation due to a lack of privacy and security in the app.

• published A Free OSINT Lesson: Go Job Hunting to Find Your Target.

OSINT Toolbox

GEM - A search engine for ads selling second-hand clothing worldwide, on various platforms.

Kagi - Privaсy focused search engine that aggregates results from different sources.

Space Frontiers - AI assistant to search for answers to questions in a specific dataset. Choose one - PubMed, BioMed, Wikipedia, Telegram, Reddit or other).

TattoDo - A very large database of tattoos from around the world. Even for rare requests, there is an endless feed of posts from tattoo artists who share their work. Useful as an additional source of information for identifying people with tattoos.

Kagi Translator - Translations across 244 languages using advanced language models.

Nanonets OCR - Hugging Face space for particularly heavy text recognition tasks in Images/PDFs. Good at reading tilted, blurred and other unreadable text.

Image Upscaling & Restoration using GFPGAN Algorithm - Hugging Face space that restores blurred images. The faces are sometimes looks creepy, but more natural than many similar tools.

TraceTracks - an OSINT tool that discovers YouTube videos basted on SoundCloud tracks.

Credit for this section goes to

Mystery Box

If you use ChatGPT and some other AI chat tools in a browser (including Gemini), your prompts are saved in your browsing history. Know more.

Anti-detect Tools - List of anti-detect and humanising tools and browsers, including captcha solvers and SMS-activation.

Obsidian OSINT Templates - These templates are suggestions of how the Obsidian notetaking tool can be used during an OSINT investigation.

Obsidian OSINT Templates & Plugins - Custom templates for OSINT investigations designed to advance pivoting.

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This Week in OSINT

• @grok, created by @xai, is accessible via the search "site:http://grok.com/share", providing a glimpse into shared conversations.

• Telegram has restored its translation feature this week, which was unavailable for some time.

• Learn how to get to the time zone on LinkedIn.

Read, Watch & Listen

1. Read Phone Number Investigation in Indonesia

2. Read Maritime Sector Faces Surge in APT and Hacktivist Cyber Threats.

3. Read How to Use Germany’s New Lobby Register as an Investigative Tool

4. Read Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites.

5. Read How to Check if Your Target Has PLA Ties: Real Life OSINT Case

6. Read Identity Resolution and Linking Online Personas to Real-World Threats

7. Read Former Indian MP’s Terror Trial Was Largely Conducted in Her Absence

8. Read Inside Russia’s drone launch sites: A detailed OSINT investigation by Ukrainian researcher

9. Read Using AI and Satellites to Track Illegal Fishing in Marine Protected Areas

10. Read Find Information About Anyone Through Social Media OSINT Techniques

11. Read ASCWG CTF Qualification 2025 — Operation Spare Clue Challenge

12. Watch The Dark Side of Crypto: Fraud, Hacks and Hitmen

13. Watch OSINT Gone Wild: How I Found Drug Traffickers and NarcoTerrorists

14. Watch OSINT and misinformation how to navigate ethics and limitations

15. Listen to new podcast episode of StageTalks with BellingCat, Detecting Stolen Art with Arthur Brand.

Newsletter Spotlight

published a new post, The ChatGPT confession files.

published a new post, Stolen accounts in the blue, blue skies.

OSINT Toolbox

• BrokerCheck - a free tool created by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to research the background and experience of financial advisers and firms.

• OpenRefine - It identifies similar items in a dataset and groups them together. It makes it easy to clear up alternate names, correct spellings or even identify trends.

• European Commission Competition Policy Case Search Tool - Search 68506 decisions by company name, case number and case title. Lots of information about different companies, both European and those with ties to Europe.

• List of academic databases and search engines - A list of dozens of the largest online tools for finding scholarly articles in a wide variety of disciplines.

• Credit for this section goes to

OSINT Tool Updates

DuckDuckGo now has a filter to hide AI-generated images from image search results. Hopefully, this feature will soon become a standard for all search engines and for all types of searches.

Mystery Box

Uk-osint.com - A very useful site managing good collection of OSINT tools.

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• Content Sharing

• Blogs Reads

• External Reading

• Videos Worth Watching

• OSINT Podcasts

• OSINT Events & Challenges

• OSINT Toolbox

• Mystery Box

Content Sharing

• published, How AI bots quietly dismantle paywalls via web search

• published a new post, A Free OSINT Lesson: The "Velvet Sundown" Squatter Who Duped the News Media.

Blogs Reads

1. You’re Not an OSINT Analyst, You’re an AI Prompt Monkey (And it Should Terrify You)

2. Dive into the shadows of an Iranian cybersecurity organization

3. UK Arrests Four in ‘Scattered Spider’ Ransom Group

External Reading

1. 8 Most Common Cybersecurity Mistakes Journalists Should Avoid

2. Briefing: Grok goes on a Nazi bender and YouTube hints it will go after AI slop

3. Masked, Armed and Forceful: Finding Patterns in Los Angeles Immigration Raids

4. Boiler Room Investment Frauds: Evolution, Detection, and Prevention

5. The Unfair Standard: Why We Expect AI to Be Perfect When We’re Not

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

• Authentic8 published a new podcast episode, An OSINT investigator’s toolkit.

• James Intelligence released two episodes, AI for automated OSINT reconnaissance - part one and AI for automated OSINT reconnaissance - part two.

• Stage Talks with BellingCat also realesed a new episode, Investigating cold cases with Peter Barth.

• OSINTCombine released a new podcast episode, The Craft of Responsibility - Journalism and OSINT.

OSINT Events & Challenges

Osama Shilbayeh created three TryHackMe challenges focused on OSINT, with difficulty levels for beginners, intermediate, and advanced users. Give them a try.
OSINT Level 1
OSINT Level 2
OSINT Level 3

OSINT Toolbox

• ODCrawler - Open directory search engine, Search videos, audio, images, archives and more.

• IDCrawl - Search social media profiles by username.

• The Time Machine 3.0 - Weaponizing WaybackUrls for Recon, BugBounties , OSINT, Sensitive Endpoints and what not.

• VormWeb - Search engine for .onion domains. Not too many indexed sites, but there are Darkglossary definition hints.

Quick Note -

Hi everyone, this is Dheeraj. As most of you know, i am publishing wednesday after almost 4months. I have been busy in some other projects which includes OSINTCon and Profiler.me (a new product by us, still under development). Apart from that, their have been a few reasons due to which i wasn’t able to give time in the newsletter. But from now onwards, their will be regular posts in the newlsetter including weekly updates with lots of new updates and improvements. I am open for any suggestion and feedback for improving this newsletter. so, feel free to reach out to me at @dheerajydv19 at linkedin/telegram. Thank you for being part of this journey.

Mystery Box

OSINT Tools Bangladesh - A collection of OSINT sources and public data tools specific to Bangladesh, following the paulpogoda/OSINT-for-countries-V2.0 template.

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