Wednesday Updates #9

Highlights: 9 blogs, 6 external reading, 3 videos, 1 podcast episodes, 4 tool updates, 4 awesome tools 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 #8

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. Epieos has just crossed 5000 followers on Linkedin. Say Congrats to them here.

Blogs Reads

1. Mastering Email Enrichment for Effective OSINT Operations

2. SQL for OSINT: Uncover Hidden Connections, Accelerate Investigations

3. 8 Tips to Improve Your Reverse Image Search Results

4. Finding cyber criminals from OPSec errors

5. The Art of Invisibility: Mastering OSINT Evasion Techniques

6. Why Retailers are Betting Big on Face Search Technology to Boost Sales

7. Investigating the Target Online

8. OSINT FOR CORPORATE

9. Unlocking the Secrets: Navigating China’s Tightened Grip on Open-Source Intelligence

External Reading

1. The Fall of Sheikh Hasina: Footage from the Streets of Bangladesh

2. Data Acquisition OSINT

3. Six Key Steps to Combating Newsroom SLAPPs: Lessons Learned from Poland, the Balkans, and Beyond

4. Investigative Tips for Safely Tracking Far-Right Extremist Chatter

5. NATO must recognize the potential of open-source intelligence

6. Threat Intelligence Platforms & OSINT

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

Authentic8 has recently published a new episode, S3E76 | Using OSINT to investigate organized animal crime in their podcast(NeedleStack) where they talk about how to leverage pedigree sites, social media, and other online sources to proactively investigate animal crime and save animals from this horrible fate. 

OSINT Events & Challenges

Nothing to tell.

Tools Changelog

1. UserSearch has made many major changes to its platform including updates to its username lookup, and better integration with OSINT industries. Click here to see more.

2. Castrick Clues has updated their domain.finder module which now supports searching by phone number too.

3. Lol Archiver has added a new module, Phone Number to AT&T.

4. Osintracker has added an Epieos connector in their latest update.

OSINT Toolbox

1. GitXRay - A multifaceted security tool that leverages Public GitHub REST APIs for OSINT, Forensics, Pentesting, and more.

2. Lose Privacy - It collects the world's most famous data breaches and data.

3. AI Reverse Image Search - Reserve images/face images search tool. Search duplicates and similar images. Filter results by domains and keywords. (Tip by @HolismVision)

4. FaceAgle - Search by uploaded photo among 4,190,655 face images. (Tip by @HolismVision)

Mystery Box

Check out this awesome article, OSINT without APIs. (Tip by

Cyb_detective

)

Missed Last week

Nothing important got missed last week.

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Wednesday Updates #10

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