Wednesday Updates #31
Deepseek review, new free tool by OSINT Industries, Ghunt got an upgrade, lots of awesome blogs, new podcast episodes and more.
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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
Content Sharing
- published an awesome post, OSINT Methods for Image Investigations.
- published an awesome post, DeepSeek: The Real Price of China's AI.
- published a post, Selling followers where the skies are blue.
- published 2024 OSINT Recap: Center of Excellence in Social Links.
Blogs Reads
The Rise of Nitazenes: Chinese Suppliers Behind Ads for Deadly Opioids Targeting Europe
Beyond the Hash: Investigating the People Behind Web3 Wallets.
External Reading
How I Did It: Extracting and Analyzing National Budget Data Using a Custom AI Bot
How ‘Underestimated’ Journalists Exposed the Massive UK Post Office Scandal
Videos Worth Watching
OSINT Podcasts
Smashing Security Podcast released a new episode, 401: Hacks on the high seas, and how your home can be stolen under your nose.
James Intelligence Podcast released a new episode, Likelihood of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
OSINT Events & Challenges
No new events or challenges this week. But there is another surprise in the end.
Tools Changelog
@OSINTindustries launched Palette, a cutting-edge OSINT visualization tool to reveal connections effortlessly. It supports searching via phone number, email, username, name, location, etc. Signup for early access.
GHunt by @mxrchreborn just got an upgrade, it now has a new module named spiderdal, which Finds assets using Digital Assets Links.
OSINT Toolbox
noimosiny - A new phone number and email OSINT tool.
OSoMe Mastodon Search - It checks for keywords, accounts and hashtags across a huge number of Mastodon servers and instances.
GoSearch - OSINT tool for searching people's digital footprint and leaked passwords across various social networks, written in Go.
GpxExpeditor 3D Sattelite View - Worldwide map with 3D and high quality satellite images. For street views from 3-20 metres it is much better than Google Maps.
KakaoMaps - One of the most detailed street panorama services is Kakao Maps. It shows even the narrowest forest paths. (Only for South Korea)
Hippie OSINT Toolkit - An OSINT toolkit providing informations on techniques and simple tools packaged in a nice responsive UI.
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Mystery Box
Here’s a good list of some awesome dark web monitoring tools compiled by our friend, Ervin Zubic in his latest blog titled, Top 15 Dark Web Monitoring Tools: Insights, Pros, and Cons.
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Glad to see GHunt is still making updates. I remember using that a bunch. Thank you for this! Absolutely beautiful