Wednesday Updates #6

Highlights: 10 blogs, 8 external reading, 4 videos, 2 podcast episodes, 2 new events, 4 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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Wednesday Updates #5

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

1. OSINT Industries had hit 5k followers on LinkedIn last week. They had also onboarded a new member in their team, Jason Howarth as Chief Sales Officer who is just awesome in marketing stuff.

2. Onchain Industries, a product of OSINT Industires has added a new capabilities which allows you to search via EVM wallet and get their OpenSea and all associated information.

3. Bullshit Hunting has just published a new free OSINT lesson on Timestamps. Check it out.

Blogs Reads

1. What is OSINT? Are there other intelligence gathering disciplines?

2. Uncover digital footprints with OSINT Industries. A complete review.

3. OSINT research with data leaks

4. Raspberries for Bad OpSec

5. Unveiling the Dark Web: The Rise and Fall of Silk Road — Part One

6. The Future Of Web Scraping: Trends And Predictions For 2024 And Beyond

7. Why OSINT Is The Secret Weapon For Major Event Security

8. From Tweet to Tradition: Unraveling a Festival with OSINT

9. Grateful Doe: Solving a Cold Case with OSINT

10. A new gen of OSINT, AI.

External Reading

1. OSINT for Critical Infrastructure: Using OSINT to identify misuse of cyber assets

2. 10 Free OSINT Tools for Beginners and Pros

3. Tips for Using ChatGPT as a Quick Search Tool in Investigations

4. Introduction to Fundraising for Investigative Journalism

5. Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice

6. Exploring the Skyline: How we Located an Alleged Cartel Member in Dubai

7. Houthi-Controlled Port Receives Vessel from Occupied Crimea After UN Inspection Body Grants Clearance

8. To Blur Or Not To Blur: Exposing Finland’s Lakeside Neo-Nazi Meetup

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

1. Listen to this awesome episode, Trump assassination conspiracies, Squarespace account hijacks, and the butt stops here from Smashing Security where they discuss about how social media fuels conspiracies, how cryptocurrency websites are hijacked and many more.

2. Listen to this awesome episode, Starting your privacy journey from Privacy Files where they discuss about a product, Reclaim by Anonyome's newest product.

OSINT Events & Challenges

OSMOSIS (An Associate for OSINT Professionals) has brought a capture the flag event which is going to be happening after 9days. Click here for details.

OSINT Uk first meetup is going to happen on 26july. They are doing some last-minute giveaway. Click here for details.

Tools Changelog

1. OSINT Industries has released a new product, Username Search which lets you search any username and discover where accounts are registered with the same username. Its available for free for limited time. Click here for details.

2. Lol Archiver has just released some new module from Phone Number to Zepeto, chime and Email to Chime.

3. Castrick Clues has also released some new modules for username to Steam, Xbox Live, and Epic Games.

4. Toutatis has been updated. Say thanks to its creator, Megadose.

OSINT Toolbox

1. Ronin Recon - A micro-framework and tool for performing reconnaissance.

2. Search GRID generator - Simple online tool that generates a KML file based on geographic coordinates to upload to Google Earth Pro and search for satellite imagery (and other information) for a given area. Tip by

   Cyb_detective

3. Reverse Whois Lookup - a reverse whois lookup service which has biggest database on the internet.

4. Deep Tech Finder - a search engine for tech startup in Europe. Tip by

   Cyb_detective

Mystery Box

Checkout this new start me page collection.

https://start.me/p/L1rEYQ/osint4all

Missed Last week

Let’s forget this section this time. We probably missed a lot last week as we missed publishing an issue last week due to some health reasons.

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Wednesday Updates #7

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