Wednesday Updates #8

Highlights: 7 blogs, 5 external reading, 4 videos, 1 podcast episodes, 1 new CTF, 2 tool updates, 6 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

• Tracelabs Search Party happened on 3rd August 2024, and a lot of people participated as contestants and coaches.

• Shodan, the internet search engine introduced a new advanced search page to make it easier to create queries. Check out the new version here.

• Niko Dekens(Dutch OSINT Guy) has started a new Dutch OSINT Community. Click here to join.

  Blogs Reads

1. Mastering Email Enrichment for Effective OSINT Operations

2. 10 OSINT blogs you should read. Think out of the box.

3. Ritu Gill (OSINT Techniques) discusses the importance of evidence capture

4. Discord OSINT Redux

5. Track company information, using local registries. (EU version) GR, GG, HU, IS, IE.

6. The Art of Geoint: How to Geolocate Any Place from a Photo (Basic Geoint Exercise)

7. OSINT Wins: A Survey of GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and Grok on Information Warfare

External Reading

1. Guide: OSINT gathering on Reddit

2. Tracking Your Search: A Guide to the Grid Generator

3. Prompting AI for Open-Source Intelligence

4. A Beginner’s Guide to Identifying Explosive Ordnance in Social Media Imagery

5. Solving the ‘Where in the world is TCM’ Challenge: My OSINT Walkthrough

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

Tracelabs has released a new episode in their podcast(Breadcrumbs), ep29 Kasm - Isolated Browsing + OSINT where they discusses about how Kasm can help in your OSINT investigations.

Authentic8 has released a new episode in thier podcast(NeedleStack), S3E75 | Investigating influence operations where the guest gives pro tips on OSINT and cyber investigations for professional practitioners.

OSINT Events & Challenges

Maveris Olympics OSINT CTF is going on and will be ending on 12th Aug 2024. This is a free CTF, so participate and practice your OSINT skills for free. Participate Now.

Tools Changelog

1. OSINT Industries has added 104 new account checker modules and some secret enrichment modules.

2. Lol Archiver has released a new email module for Ebay.

   OSINT Toolbox

3. Mention - Monitor the web, analyze online conversations, and manage your social media: all with one powerful tool.

4. Auto Archiver - Automatically archive links to videos, images, and social media content from Google Sheets (and more).

5. Epic Games Lookup - allows you to search for an Epic account by ID, PSN, or Xbox Gamertag and view associated accounts, creation date, and more.

6. PANORAMAX - Google Street View alternative based on Open Street Maps(works only for EU and France). Tip by

   Cyb_detective

Mystery Box

OH SHINT - A collection of awesome stuff for OSINT lovers. Created by @ohshint_

(Secret - This used to be my favorite resource for learning in my initial days when I started learning OSINT and it’s still amazing)

Missed Last week

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