Wednesday Updates #1
Highlights: 7 Interesting blogs, 7 awesome videos, 9 new tools, 5 job openings, one free eBook and many more.
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Today’s Newsletter includes -
This Week in OSINT
Blogs Reads
External Reading
Videos Worth Watching
OSINT Podcasts
OSINT Events & Challenges
Tools Changelog
OSINT Toolbox
OSINT Jobs
Missed Last week
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This Week in OSINT
OSINT.uk, the recently launched OSINT community got featured on Techround.
Blogs Reads
External Reading
Burning Villages: Violence Escalates as Myanmar Military Reacts to Territorial Losses
How Investigative Journalists Can Fight Back Against Health Misinformation
Dissecting Propaganda: Using AI to Cut Through North Korean TV Spin
Open-Source Intelligence Market is forecasted to expand to USD 23887.37 Million by 2030
Videos Worth Watching
OSINT Podcasts
Listen this awesome episode from Bellingcat Podcast, “Getting Started In Open Source Research” with Sofia Santos.
Listen this another awesome episode from Privacy Files, Crypto Scams where the guest talks about variety of frauds, from pig butchering scams to phishing attacks.
Listen this one more awesome episode form NeedleCast by Authentic8, learning foreign languages for OSINT with Skip Schiphorst where he talks about the importance of learning foreign languages in OSINT.
OSINT Events & Challenges
Join the free webinar Investigating Drug Trafficking with OSINT by Social Links on 27June, 1PM CET.
OSINT.uk is having its first offline meetup on 26july. Reserve your free Ticket.
Lehack is back with its 2024 edition. Checkout the conference tracks and speaker details on their website.
Tools Changelog
Ghunt, the famous offensive Google Framework has been updated to 2.2 with a better CLI help menu and a new module for geolocation (to find the location of a BSSID).
Blackbird, a popular CLI based username enumeration tool now supports searching via email and gives some useful info about the email too.
CastrickClues has added a new module to find domain associated with any email.
Forensic OSINT, now lets you extract HD profile picture from a Instagram user’s profile along with other key values including userIDs, D.O.B, no. of followers, etc.
OSINT Industries 2.0 has been launched. It has beautiful UI and a lot more updates.
OSINT Toolbox
OSINT Industries along with its partners has launched OnChain Industries, a platform to search for a wallet address and quickly retrieve a comprehensive list of accounts associated with that address across multiple crypto platforms, all in real time.
RootAbout is search-by-image system. You supply a picture, and RootAbout will check if it looks similar to any indexed picture. It can also be used to search an image in Internet Archive and OpenLibrary.
Atlas is a new collaborative GIS in the browser which allows to explore, anlyze and share geospatial data.
NorthData is a European companies search engine.
Offshore Leaks Database helps you find out who’s behind more than 810,000 offshore companies, foundations and trusts from the Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Panama Papers and Offshore Leaks investigations. Thanks to
for tip.FireCrawl turn websites into LLM-ready data. It can crawl and convert any website into clean markdown or structured data.
InsE - Instagram email finder & exporter Scrape public email and phone of Instagram followers and export to csv/excel.
Not Just Analytics is a freemium online tool for analyzing Instagram profiles.
GitHub Dorks Search is another modified version of dork search by @Taksec.
OSINT Jobs
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Mystery Box
Read Open Source Investigations in the Age of Google, a free eBook written by some of the talented researchers of the OSINT industry including @BenDoBrown, @hrgwilson1 @olamideDIY @DanPlesch.
One of our newsletter subscriber,
has shared this awesome collection, OSINT Links & Resources. (Say thanks to him on LinkedIn)Ukrainian developers have launched the first English-language AI tool designed to analyze and expose Russian propaganda. The tool has transcripts of over 100,000 hours of content from Russian TV, Telegram, and RuTube, helping “policymakers, diplomats, media, and researchers identify threats and disinformation”, says Volodymyr Borodiansky, founder of the War of Words project, and former Minister of Culture, Youth, and Sports of Ukraine (2019–2020).
The War of Words project has transcripts and videos of various Russian media outlets and platforms and Telegram. It features a cloud-based data storage with a 12-year archive of propaganda, updated daily. Users can search by keywords in English and the original language. Results can be filtered by date, media type, sources, programs, speakers, and other parameters.
Newsletter Highlights
Tip: Google UDM by
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the discovery of the udm=14 parameter value within the Google searches, and how it can be used to strip the AI generated content, and Google adds. Some time after, Irina Shamaeva took it upon her to play around with other possible values, and it seems there are more options available for this parameter.
And looking at the discovery that the URL parameter udm=7 is for videos, and is actually redirecting to tbm=vid, I had a look at that new parameter myself. After I did some testing, I found an old thread over at Stackexchange, listing a lot of options. of which the following ones are still working today:
ParameterResult
tbm=bksBooks
tbm=ischGoogle images (redirect to udm=2)
tbm=nwsGoogle news
tbm=ptsGooglePatents
tbm=shopShopping
tbm=vidVideos
tbm=finFinancial
tbm=mapDownloads Google Maps JSON
These parameters can be used to search Google directly, for instance: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=fin&q=facebook This link will direct you to the current price of Meta Platforms Inc over at Nasdaq, powered by Google Finance.
Of course the question is: What else is there to discover? What other parameters are out there? And are there any that can help create more targeted searches, and therefore maybe create better search results? I know these options have been around for quite some time, but it is always great to explore.
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Missed Last week
We missed this awesome video, “How to find a location using only the shadow”.
We missed this awesome article, “WhatsMyName for OSINT Investigations” by
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