Wednesday Updates #30
Awesome blogs and articles, YouTube videos, podcasts and lots of 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
@GeospyAI got some press coverage. 404 media published an article about them, but sadly in a negative way. Read the post here.
@GrayLark_io is asking if they should bring back the #geoguesser style game back. Vote it for here.
@nattyfried did some OSINT investigation on $Melania meme coin. Read it here.
Content Sharing
Our friend,
at published an awesome post, A Free OSINT Lesson: Why RUMINT is the Unsung Hero of Intelligence Gathering.- published a new post, Finding fake followers (Bluesky edition).
- published a new post, Journalism Student Picks for Effective AI Tools.
Blogs Reads
The Rise of Web3 Open Source Intelligence - Tools, Ethics and Privacy
The Rise of Nitazenes: Chinese Suppliers Behind Ads for Deadly Opioids Targeting Europe
Ukraine ‘Outraged’ at Yemen Grain Shipment From Occupied Crimea
External Reading
Harnessing OSINT in Criminal Investigations: A Case Study on the Fugitive Emmanuel Edokpolor
OSINT in Action: The Case of Abdelnour Djabri and a Global Manhunt
Protecting Traveling Employees with OSINT: A Guide to Travel Risk Mitigation
How to Conduct Effective Social Media Investigations Using OSINT Techniques
Are You Being Tailed? Tips for Reporters Concerned About Physical Surveillance
Videos Worth Watching
OSINT Podcasts
Stage Talks with BellingCat released a new episode, “Investigating Art Crime” with Lynda Albertson.
Smashing Security Podcast released a new episode, 400: Hacker games, AI travel surveillance, and 25 years of IoT.
OSINT Events & Challenges
@Gralhix published OSINT Exercise #031 for both beginners and experts. Give it a try.
Tools Changelog
@OSINTindustries now supports investigating email address across 150 platform after some new module additions (including email to twitter, one of the most needed modules from our perspective).
@OSINTindustries added a new capability username to Email. Try it here.
OSINT Toolbox
SearchPof - Google CSE to quick search profiles in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest and Snapchat.
Faceonlive - Another tool for reverse facial searches. Free shows only part of the links, but doesn't blur images (like some analogs) and allows to download them.
Cyberbro - Get information about IPs/domains from different sources like VirusTotal, Shodan, AbuseIPDB, PhishTank, ThreatFox and more. Try demo version for free.
Data Portals - Search by 599 portals around the world. Goverment data, professional registries, courts records, cadastral maps and more.
Mystery Box
Here are some cool and unpublished Dorks, Dorks. Thanks to @javobernardo
Missed Last week
We missed this awesome post last week.
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