Wednesday Updates #32
Free OSINT Conference Announcement, awesome blogs and articles, new YouTube videos, new OSINT tools, events and a lot of other cool updates.
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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
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⭐Announcement: OSINTCon 2025
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This Week in OSINT
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Content Sharing
- published a new post, Photo-Related List of OSINT Tools.
- published a new post, The Quest of Deep Research with AI.
- published a new post, Surveilling the State: Open Police Records.
Blogs Reads
Unmask the Scam: OSINT Secrets to Catch Phishing Emails Like a Pro
Investigating Economic Crime Like a Pro: Tools, Tradecraft, and Methods for OSINT Analysts
Why Any Reporter Can Now Source Free, Quality Satellite Images of Almost Anywhere on Earth
Using Data to Expose Systemic Gender-Based Violence — in 10 Steps
Satellite Imagery Shows Schools and Hospitals Destroyed in Northern Gaza
External Reading
The Critical Importance of Protecting Your Brand's Digital Footprint
Neo-Nazis Linked to “Terrorist Activities” to Host Budapest Concert
Strategic Risk in 2025: Confronting an Evolving Threat Landscape
Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov
Videos Worth Watching
OSINT Podcasts
James Intelligence Podcast released new episode, Likelihood of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Stage Talks with Bellingcat released a new episode, Building Open Source Research into a newsroom.
- released a new episode, Episode 7 of Podcast / How DeepSeek controls the conversation.
OSINT Events & Challenges
ShadowDragon in collaboration with DarkBlue Intelligence Suite is hosting a webinar, From Precursors to Pockets: Disrupting the Global Fentanyl Network That Connects Chinese Chemicals to U.S. Street Dealers on Feb 14, 2025. Register now.
Recording for the webinar organized by Flashpoint titled, Beyond the Tools: Core Skills for OSINT Mastery is pubic now. Watch it now.
Tools Changelog
@castrickclues now allows you to create and manage API keys yourself.
@OSINTindustries added 4 new modules Truth Social, Tetr.io, ESPN, Coverstar.
@Usersearch_web integrated Spamhaus into their product.
OSINT Toolbox
ExpandURL - Expand Shortened URLs.
DangerZone - Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs.
LINKOOK - An OSINT tool for discovering linked social accounts and associated emails across multiple platforms using a single username.
Web archives list - Github repo with collection of yaml files with basic info (main page link, url search link etc) about different web archives.
European Companies Search Engine - It provides easily understandable company information that is publicly available, obtained from sources such as trade registers, yearly reports, funding registers, trademark registers, patent registers and others.
RIPGREP-ALL - a line-oriented search tool that allows you to look for a regex in a multitude of file types.
Quick YouTube Advanced Search - Advance search for youtube.
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