Wednesday Updates #23
UserSearch's black Friday deal, Bellingcat's freelance job and Tech Fellowship opportunity, awesome blogs and article's, new video and podcast episode, and awesome tools collection...
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This Week in OSINT
Content Sharing
Blogs Reads
External Reading
Videos Worth Watching
OSINT Podcasts
OSINT Events & Challenges
Tools Changelog
OSINT Toolbox
Mystery Box
Missed Last week
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This Week in OSINT
UserSearch and ForensicOSINT are giving amazing offers during this Black Friday. We will be publishing a dedicated post for this black friday, so more details will be shared their.
@zoloogy(CTO of OSINT Industries) showcased a demo of the new, Name Searching Feature and it looks too good. Know More.
@nattyfried shared a quick OSINT research about the Theat Actor group, ZeroSevenGroup. Know More.
@bellingcat is hiring for a Software Engineer Consultant (freelance). Know More. If you are interested in building awesome OSINT tools, check out the Bellingcat Tech Fellowship Opportunity.
Content Sharing
GIJN has published an awesome guide, Introduction to Investigative Journalism, where they teach basic investigative journalism skills, written by GIJN in collaboration with top investigative journalists from around the world.
- published a new roundup, Tools and tips round up: Searching and using Bluesky, new tools from Bellingcat and Henk van Ess, and more.
- published a tutorial, New OSINT Source Discovery - Internet Archive Activity.
Blogs Reads
Bitcoin Mixing Explained: Key Insights and Forensic Analysis Tips
How We Went from 27th to 2nd Place at the TraceLabs CTF (and Had Fun Along the Way)
External Reading
Videos Worth Watching
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OSINT Podcasts
James Intelligence Podcast released a new episode, Is it time to redefine OSINT? - part two.
OSINT Events & Challenges
GIJN is coming up with a webinar on topic, Lessons Learned from Investigating the 2024 Elections on 10 December 2024 at 9PM EDT where they discuss innovative techniques, cross-border collaborations, and the critical importance of investigative journalism in fostering transparency and accountability in elections.
@OSINTindustries announced a FREE 1-hour Beginner OSINT Training on 29 Nov, 12:00 PM EST. Know More.
Tools Changelog
UserSearch is offering 45% discount on it’s monthly and yearly plans. during Black Friday Sale. Use code, “#BlackFriday” during checkout. They also added new integration in their platform which allows telegram user lookup and telegram channel lookup. Know More.
ForensicOSINT added some awesome features like exporting up to 1700 comments from Youtube videos and securely downloading videos from Instagram. Know More.
OSINTTracker is going to launch a paid version soon.
OSINT Toolbox
Street View Tracker - A simple extension to create KML files of routes using Google Street View.
Who Am I - allows you to select a word and quickly check it from the context menu using different tools for nickname enumeration: WhatsMyNameApp and Sherlock.
Mystery Box
Interested in reading about the dark web?
published Dark Web Monitoring: Key Insights (November 21, 2024). Read some interesting info about what’s going on in the dark web.Interested in journalism?
Apart from this, we have a collection of amazing tools. Thanks to
https://github.com/paulpogoda/OSINT-Tools-Uzbekistan
https://github.com/paulpogoda/OSINT-Tools-Kyrgyzstan
https://github.com/paulpogoda/OSINT-Tools-Tajikistan
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