Wednesday Updates #28
Announced our new product, some awesome reads and a few new tools.
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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
We launched 1st version of OSINTResources.com
@OsintTeamBlog is celebrating their 2years anniversary.
We ended our OSINT Recap Series, checkout all the post now.
Content Sharing
- published a post on, “Managing Your Mind: Trauma Exposure During Open-Source Investigations”.
- published a post on, “Investigating the Grandbase Hack - a Walkthrough”.
Blogs Reads
Opening the AI ‘Black Box’: How We Investigated Grab’s Fare System
Investigating infrastructure that hides behind Cloudflare using OSINT
External Reading
Shamsud-Din Jabbar: OSINT Profiling and Uncovering Hidden Threads of the New Orleans Terror Attack
Documents Found After the Fall of Assad Show Syrian Intelligence Spying on Journalists
Videos Worth Watching
OSINT Podcasts
Darknet Diaries released a new episode, EP 153: Bike Index, where they talked about stolen bikes and investigations on this case using OSINT.
OSINT Events & Challenges
@OSINT_Community announced their upcoming seminar happening on 6march in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Book your tickers.
Tools Changelog
@Usersearch_web now supports PIPL.
@OSINTindustries is now back to it’s Paypal module again. It also added a new module for Alibaba(China’s biggest e-commerce platform).
OSINT Toolbox
PakSimLookup - a Python tool designed to extract information using a mobile number (starting with 92) or a CNIC (without dashes). This tool has not been tested by us.
Favihash - Get the hash of favicon of website (by url or file) and quick search it in Shodan, Censys and Virustotal. Created by @PredictaLabOff.
RepoAnalyzer - An online tool that automatically analyzes dozens of Github repository parameters and assesses how trustworthy a repository is.
OpenSky - Open (free) air traffic data for research:
- live data
- historical data
- tracking 264K+ aircrafts
- scientific datasets
ShipSpotting - - 3M+ ships, inland vessels and lighthouses(!) photos available with advanced search with a lot of filters with real-time tracking map
IUU Vessels List - Search detailed vessels profiles by current or historic name, callsign, owner, registration number.
OpenSupplyHub - Search worldwide supply chain data by facility name, country, company, product type and other filters.
World of orienteering maps collection - A source of a huge amount of additional information not found on Google Maps (including historical). 50000+ detailed topographic maps of various terrains around the world.
Mystery Box
OSINTResources.com - Your one-stop destination for the best OSINT resources.
We wanted to organize all the OSINT resources available on the internet. We wanted to make exploring new OSINT stuff easy to explore for everyone, so we built this project. This project is created by by Aayush and Vishwajeet, in collaboration with us.
The current version is just a basic version, now we need your help in improving it.
If we have missed adding any resource that should be on the website, please submit that in Submit your Resource section on the homepage. If you can suggest to us, any new features or more details you would like to see in product details, please tell us in our discord server or Dm us on Twitter. Feel free to give suggestions or feedback on Twitter or on Discord anytime.
If any company is interested in sponsoring this project, let us know that too on Twitter.
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