Wednesday Updates #25

New webinar announcement, new blogs and articles, new challenges to practice OSINT, tools updates and new tools collection and many more.

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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

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This Week in OSINT

• @OSINTindustries just hit an incredible 1000+ modules!

• @OSINT_Community announced their upcoming seminar

• Maiget now has a web interface.

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Content Sharing

• The OSINT Guide
  published OSINT Tools and Investigative Research Resources for International Investigation and OSINT Tools - US Business Intelligence and Regulatory Platforms.

• Conspirador Norteño
  published A title similar to the curious content that makes users click to see.

Blogs Reads

1. Blueprint for Bluesky: An OSINT Guide

2. ICS 206–01: The New Standard Every OSINT Professional Must Know

3. Chain Hopping in Crypto: How to Track Cross-Blockchain Fund Movement

4. Phone number research with phoneinfoga

5. How to Automate Google Searches for Phone Numbers Investigation

6. How to Investigate Suspended X(Twitter) Accounts for Hidden Insights

7. How Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Can Help Governments Ensure Public Safety

External Reading

1. Using OSINT in geopolitical assessment: A practical guide

2. Colombian Mercenaries in Transit to Sudan via Libya - What Do We Know?

3. Retracing the Congolese March Where Dido Kakisingi was Killed

4. AI for the IC: Why the Intelligence Community is Turning to Automation to Navigate Modern Data Challenges

5. Scraping the sea with Maritime OSINT, Tips, tools & Techniques

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

• Stage Talks with BellingCat released a new episode, “We are BellingCat” Q&A session with Eliot Higgins.

• IntelFocus released a new episode, What is Digital Forensic: A comprehensive Guide.

OSINT Events & Challenges

• @OSINT_Community announced their upcoming seminar, OSINT UK: Safeguarding Seminar happening on May 1, 2025 in London, England. Get your Ticket.

• Bellingcat Challenges - A small selection of сhallenges (with the ability to check answers) to test osint skills.

Tools Changelog

• Maigret finally has a web interface mode!. Say thanks to @Sox0j and @overcuriousity.

• @OSINTindustries added a new modules that simplifes email & phone lookup for Russian accounts. Also, they now supports Light Mode.

• Superbolt now supports Berlin. Try it now.

OSINT Toolbox

• vaderSentiment - A very easy to use python library that allows you to analyze the sentiment of different text fragments.

• IntellGPT - ChatGPT agent that's set to help in intelligence analysis with data science approaches and OSINT.

• Domain Digger - Free and simple domain info gathering tool.

• Find That Spot - A tool that allows to search the map for objects that match a text description.

• Robofinder - A tool to analyze the history of robots.txt. It analyzes all versions of the file from the wayback machine and displays a list of all found directories.

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Mystery Box

• Global Investigative Journalism Network published a new study guide, Investigating Health and Medicine.

• VISCID
  wrote an interesting post about How to use Google Maps unconventionally to do a virtual tour and know your surroundings!

• OSINT Tools Armenia - A list of OSINT resources that may be useful to you when conducting investigations related to Armenia

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