Wednesday Updates #24
New projects to practice your OSINT skills, many new interesting blogs, videos, and many new tools and some collections.
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Today’s Newsletter includes -
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
Note—As you all know, we didn’t publish the newsletter issue last Wednesday. I apologize for that. I was busy in traveling, so I wasn’t able to use my laptop. We have covered most of last week's information in this issue, so enjoy.
This Week in OSINT
Test out your OSINT skills with the advent of OSINT, which is run by the OSINT4fun project. Try it now.
OSMOSIS Association is also hosting a CTF, 25 Days of OSINT, currently in progress. Try it now.
@OSINT_Community is looking for sponsors. Support them in enhancing intelligence capabilities globally and showcase your brand to the leaders in OSINT. Know More.
@Sox0j shared some investigative insights. Read how he performed OSINT on a real person.
@mxrchreborn also performed OSINT on a real person. Read about his approach to performing OSINT on a person.
Maigret appeared in the top 3 trending repositories on GitHub. Say congrats to
Content Sharing
- published A Free OSINT Lesson: Sometimes It's Easier Just to Make a Phone Call.
- published Spam in the firehose.
Blogs Reads
UnderYourNoZ: chasing Russian assets using OSINT, a case study.
How OSINT Cracks Cases: OSINT Investigation on the Frontline
How to detect and analyse identity-based disinformation/FIMI
External Reading
How New National Intelligence Standards Can Professionalize OSINT for the Whole Community
The unintentional contribution of the press to foreign disinformation operations
Introduction to Investigative Journalism: Following the Money
Videos Worth Watching
OSINT Podcasts
James Intelligence Podcast released a new episode, Large Language Models (LLMs) cure or curse for OSINT?
OSINT Events & Challenges
@OSINT_Community announced their upcoming event on March 6, 2025, in Newcastle. Register for it now.
Test out your OSINT skills with the advent of OSINT, which is run by the OSINT4fun project. Try it now.
OSMOSIS Association is also hosting a CTF, 25 Days of OSINT, currently in progress. Try it now.
Tools Changelog
@Usersearch_web now supports Telegram Investigations. It added many new features like searching chat messages, User and Telegram Channel lookups, User’s historical features, telegram channel full member lists, and many more. Try it.
@OSINTindustries released a new phone number module that returns a name for almost 80-90% of phone numbers globally. Try it.
@epieos revealed that they support 550+ modules and email checkers in their private version. Try it.
OSINT Toolbox
UBIKRON - a Chrome extension that keeps track of sites you’ve browsed. It saves screenshots of the sites as well as all the body text. It allows you to make notes and mark screen areas on a page as important. Tip by
internect.info - View BlueSky account registration date, profile name history and some other additional info.
HAWKER is an OSINT tool in Python that finds information about an email or phone number, a URL, and an IP address.
Open Library - A tool to search for free books in the Internet Archive.
Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector - An extension that determines if the video or sound is AI-generated.
Thanks
for this section.Mystery Box
@Sector035 finally solved a 7-year-old geolocation challenge which finally got solved last week. Read about his experience in solving this geolocation challenge.
OSINT-Tools-Israel - A list of websites which have proved useful during OSINT investigations in Israel.
OSINT-Tools-Emirates - A list of OSINT tools that may be useful to you when conducting investigations related to the United Arab Emirates.
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