Wednesday Updates #4

Highlights: 7 blogs, 3 external reading, 3 videos, 1 podcast episodes, 3 tool updates, 4 awesome tools, a resource collection and many more.

Hello, our dear reader, welcome to our weekly newsletter, “Wednesday Updates", a hub for all your new tools, tactics and techniques, and emerging trends in the OSINT world.

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Today’s Newsletter includes -

• This Week in OSINT

• 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

Uk OSINT Community has announced their community partnership program in order to partner with other organizations, communities, charities to help and grow the OSINT community. So, expect some cool stuff coming soon as a result of collaboration. Source.

Blogs Reads

1. UIU`24 CTF OSINT Walkthrough

2. The Role of OSINT in Modern Journalism

3. OSINT & Blockchain: Enhancing Transparency in News Coverage and Political Spaces

4. In Pursuit of Truth: An OSINT Case Study on Tiktok Investigation

5. Cyber Terrorism: The Silent Threat to National Security and Society

6. Verifying the Truth: An OSINT Case Study

7. The Island in the Image: An OSINT Adventure

External Reading

1. How Reporting From Six Years Ago Exposed a Political Fundraising Scandal That Rocked India’s Elections

2. Allies and Open Sources: Lessons from Northern Raven, the largest OSINT collection operation in NATO’s history

3. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Market Research 2024: Industry Revenue, Future Demand, and Regional Growth Prospects to 2032

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

Listen to this awesome episode, Julian Assange, inside a DDoS attack, and deepfake traumas from Smashing Security Podcast where they talks about how deepfakes cause trouble in the playground and hot takes about ransomware and tales from inside a devastating denial-of-service attack.

OSINT Events & Challenges

No interesting event or challenges this week.

Tools Changelog

1. Epieos has added a new email module which extracts information about adobe account associated with the email.

2. Lol Archiver has also added two new modules which are as following -

   1. Email to Castbox

   2. Email and Phone Number to Peloton

3. UserSearch has added a new Instagram module which allows you to access everything about an Instagram user, from basic account information to internal display settings and image metadata, without logging in.

OSINT Toolbox

1. Graph.Tips - a tool to showcase how the facebook search function works.

2. Earthkit - A Nifty toolkit that helps you Geolocate faster with AI. Tip by

   Cyb_detective’s Substack

3. ShadeMap - Simulate sun shadow for anything for any date and time.

4. Urldna - free online tool for gathering info about a URL.

Mystery Box

Telegram OSINT, a new GitHub repository by Ginger T which consists of amazing resources for Telegram OSINT. Don’t forget to appreciate the creators’ efforts by giving a star to the repo.

Missed Last week

We missed this awesome newsletter post, A Free OSINT Lesson: How Many Shell Companies Does This Guy Have? by

Bullsh*t Hunting

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