Wednesday Updates #21

OSINT Techniques book got updated, new AI model for Geolocation, earn money by sharing 0day bugs, and many new awesome blogs, videos, tools and an amazing resources collection.

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Wednesday Updates #20

• This Week in OSINT

• Content Sharing

• Blogs Reads

• External Reading

• Videos Worth Watching

• OSINT Podcasts

• Tips by Heart

• OSINT Events & Challenges

• Tools Changelog

• OSINT Toolbox

• Mystery Box

• Missed Last week

This Week in OSINT

@IntelTechniques has released the 11th version of their popular book, OSINT Techniques. Checkout now.

UK OSINT Community has reached 1000members. Say Congrats here.

@GrayLark_io announced SuperBolt, a new AI model for precise street-level photo geolocation in urban environments. Try the demo.

@epieos shared some lovely wallpapers for OSINTers. Checkout now.

@epieos is ready to purchase your #OSINT 0days up to $20,000! Know More.

Content Sharing

Henk van Ess

published an awesome post, Claude VisualPDF: Why It’s a Big Deal.

Blogs Reads

• All-Source Intelligence: From OSINT to Artificial Intelligence

• Screenshotting videos automatically / Storybook\

• Look Inside the Open Source ‘Information Laundromat’ Tool for Examining Website Content and Metadata

External Reading

• FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

• Understanding and Mitigating Insider Threats: Guide for Organizations

• OSINT for Critical Infrastructure Protection: Identifying and Mitigating Threats to National Security and Stability

• Fundamentals of open-source intelligence for journalists

• OSINT Workshop Case Study: Using AI and Advanced Techniques to Uncover Criminal Networks

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

• Smashing Security Podcast released a new episode, Pasta spies and private eyes, and are you applying for a ghost job?.

• Stage Talks with BellingCat released a new episode, Studying Russia’s Digital Grasp where they discussed the current strategies of the Russian government in internet crackdowns both at home and abroad and the trend of bots, online propaganda, and banned media outlets in attempts at ongoing censorship.

Tips by Heart

@Gralhix recommends an awesome OSINT book. "Psychology of Intelligence Analysis" by CIA vet Richards J. Heuer Jr. It’s timeless for metacognition, perception, and avoiding bias. Access it for free.

@BanPangar shared a method for finding emails/nicknames mentioned in the text of web pages/docs with an archive.org collection search. Help find a lot of things that don't show up in Google results. Know more.

@cyb_detective shared an awesome tip, If the name of a person (object, place) can't be found using usual search engines or semantic AI search tools, then try to ask real people if they've seen anything matching your description. Try in this Subreddit.

@cyb_detective also shared an advanced search operator list for Mastodon and Bluesky. Checkout now.

OSINT Events & Challenges

• BellingCat is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with BELLINGFEST on the 14th and 15th of November. Know More.

• UK OSINT Community is coming up with a new webinar on US Election: An Investigative Journalist’s Verdict with @techjournalisto. Set a reminder.

• Registration for live training by OSINT Industries in collaboration with Uncharted for, Identifying Online Aliases and Unique Identifiers is going on. (not a paid promotion, just a free shoutout)

Tools Changelog

No update in any popular tool.

OSINT Toolbox

• SuperBolt - A new AI model for precise street-level photo geolocation in an urban environment.

• Favicorn - Search websites by favicon from all possible sources. Tip by

  Soxoj

• BellingCat Filename Finder - Display filenames for images uploaded to Google Maps by users (in location photos, reviews, etc)

• Wayback Machine Telegram Collection Search - Optimized version of wayback machine for telegram for better search results.

• Telegram Scraper - A powerful Python script that allows you to scrape messages and media from Telegram channels using the Telethon library. Features include real-time continuous scraping, media downloading, and data export capabilities. Tip by

  Cyb_detective

• Video Text Search - A tool that allows to quickly and accurately find a frame in a video by text description.

• INSTATRACKER - Tools to track Instagram account changes like followers, following, bio, text, etc. Tip by @HolismVision

• OSM Deep History - Click on a location on OpenStreetMap and select Query Features from the context menu to see the Node IDs of the associated elements (in the links).

Mystery Box

Digital Methods Tools Archive - 60+ free online tools for various highly specialized tasks in online investigations. For example: - Wikipedia Edits IP Localizer - Robots.txt Discovery - Amazon Related Product Graph and more.

https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolDatabase

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