Wednesday Updates #15

New OSINT Resources collections, interesting case studies, learn geolocation, upcoming webinar, new osint tools and many more...

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Today’s Newsletter includes -

• This Week in OSINT

• Content Sharing

• Blogs Reads

• External Reading

• Tweets Deck

• Beginner’s Column

• Videos Worth Watching

• OSINT Podcasts

• OSINT Events & Challenges

• Tools Changelog

• OSINT Toolbox

• OSINT Jobs

• Mystery Box

• Missed Last week

This Week in OSINT

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Content Sharing

The OSINT Guide

published a post, Gold Mine for Uncovering Hidden Assets in UK Remains Unnoticed.

Blogs Reads

1. OSINT resources for researching ransomware

2. How to Find & Monitor Vital WhatsApp Groups in War Zones

3. Gold Mine for Uncovering Hidden Assets in UK Remains Unnoticed

4. Exploring the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database: Unveiling Hidden Global Wealth

5. Hezbollah’s OpSec Failure

6. OSINT reveals: How AI tried — and failed — to recreate Hezbollah’s alleged attack on Ramat David Airbase in Israel

7. Overpass Turbo & GEOINT: How to Leverage OpenStreetMap for Location Analysis

External Reading

1. The Role of OSINT in the Evolution of Threat Intelligence

2. The Importance of OSINT Investigative Strategy

3. ‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum

Tweets Deck

• Epieos posted a thread defining 8 essential uses of Epieos. Know More.

• Cyber Detective shared list of Online tools for determining geolocation by photo. See the list.

Beginner’s Column

3 Beginner’s Friendly Article

• LinkedIn: The Dark Side of Corporate Espionage

• My First Investigation

• OSINT Tools for Bitcoin Investigations

3Beginner’s Friendly Tools

• Onchain Industries - Search accounts in different crypto platforms, wallet labels and other info by waller number, email or username.

• WhatsMyName Web - It allows you to enumerate usernames across many websites.

• Sherlock - Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks.

1 real-world case study

Scam ‘Funeral Streaming’ Groups Thrive on Facebook

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

• Theat Intelligence Podcast by @The_CTGroup released a new episode, Secrets in Plain Sight: How OSINT is Shaping Global Conflicts where they provide an overview of emerging OSINT techniques and what has changed since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine.

• Layer8 Podcast released a new episode, The Investigative Journalist where they discusses the various less-common investigative (OSINT) tools that he used to tell the story.

• The Social Enginner Podcast released a new episode, Breaches Breaches and More Breaches What Can You Do? where they discusses about data breaches.

Tips by Heart

Soxoj shared an interesting method to extract followers from a private account. Read full Post here.

OSINT Events & Challenges

• Social Links is back with a new webinar, New Horizons for Data Enrichment and Social Mapping on october 1, 2 pm CET.

• Kase Scenarios released their 1st cybersecurity-oriented training scenario named, ORKLA: BOUNTY HUNT. Try it.

Tools Changelog

• OSINT Industries launched its most advanced API which is fully integrated with username searches, It is now smarter, faster, and more efficient.

• Castrick Clues launched a new module, Phone > NumTrace to find the associated names with a phone number, aggregated from multiple sources!

OSINT Toolbox

• ExoneraTor - A simple online tool that will show whether a particular IP was used as a Tor entry node.

• LinkScope Client - an open-source desktop app for investigation.

• H.I.V.E - an automated OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) multi-tool that enables efficient data gathering from various sources.

• IOC.one - OSINT Cyber Threat Intelligence Database.

Credit -

Cyb_detective

Mystery Box

@bellingcat launched the new online investigation toolkit. Click here to access.

Missed Last week

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