Wednesday Updates #26

New blogs and articles, new challenges to practice OSINT and win some cash, tools updates and new tools collection and many more.

OSINT Ambition

Dec 25, 2024

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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

Victory Drones has officially launched a free OSINT course together with CPC, Molfar, and others. Sadly the course is in Ukranian. Click here to check it out.
@epieos posted a geolocation challenge on their twitter account. Click here to give it a try.
@GrayLark_io posted an awesome OSINT challenge with reward worth $10,000. solve the mysteries, and claim the prize.
@BenDoBrown created this advent series sharing a video every day for 24 days showing useful OSINT tools & techniques. Click here to watch the series.
@epieos reached the significant milestone of 5million users. Say congrats to them.

Content Sharing

Samantha Sunne

published a new post in her newsletter(Tools for Reporters), The top tools of 2024.

Soxoj

publised a new post, Home Alone: OSINT Edition.

Blogs Reads

External Reading

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

James Intelligence released a new podcast episode, Language and Linguistics in OSINT where they discuss why the nuances of language and linguistics are important to the interpretation of open-source intelligence (OSINT).

OSINT Events & Challenges

@epieos posted a geolocation challenge on their twitter account. Click here to give it a try.
@GrayLark_io posted an awesome OSINT challenge with reward worth $10,000. solve the mysteries, and claim the prize.

Tools Changelog

@OSINTindustries added a new module, Email to Quora(website with 400M+ monthly active users).

@Usersearch_web integrated PIPL.com into their platform. They are also offering a Chrismas discount. Know more.

OSINT Toolbox

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.

Shodan Spider - Very simple bash tool that automate Shodan search and save results to txt files.(no login or API key required!)

FLINFO - A partially free tool to monitor, search and quickly analyze news from many different sources in Mandarin, Russian, Arabic, French, Persian, Vietnamese (the tool automatically translates them into English).

ArchiveGrid - Worldwide map of 1400+ archives (libraries, universities, museums etc) with contact info, Search by 7M+ archival materials records

Thanks

Cyb_detective

for this section.

Mystery Box

List of online newspaper archives - Huge (incredibly huge) list of links to online newspaper archives by country and region + world archives. You can find information about different people and events from the 17th century to the present day.

Bellingcat Globetrotters Writeups - Detailed descriptive solutions of Bellingcat challenges.

Missed Last week

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