Weekly Updates #1

Lots of new updates this week.

Welcome to the first edition of Weekly Updates, your weekly summary of what happened in OSINT this week.

This week’s issue includes...
🔍✨ This Week in OSINT
📖Read. 🎬Watch. 🎙️Listen. To…
📰✨ Newsletter Spotlight
🛠️✨ OSINT Toolbox
🔧📈 OSINT Tool Updates
🎁🔍 Mystery Box
⏳🔙 Missed Last Week?

This Week in OSINT

• @grok, created by @xai, is accessible via the search "site:http://grok.com/share", providing a glimpse into shared conversations.

• Telegram has restored its translation feature this week, which was unavailable for some time.

• Learn how to get to the time zone on LinkedIn.

Read, Watch & Listen

1. Read Phone Number Investigation in Indonesia

2. Read Maritime Sector Faces Surge in APT and Hacktivist Cyber Threats.

3. Read How to Use Germany’s New Lobby Register as an Investigative Tool

4. Read Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites.

5. Read How to Check if Your Target Has PLA Ties: Real Life OSINT Case

6. Read Identity Resolution and Linking Online Personas to Real-World Threats

7. Read Former Indian MP’s Terror Trial Was Largely Conducted in Her Absence

8. Read Inside Russia’s drone launch sites: A detailed OSINT investigation by Ukrainian researcher

9. Read Using AI and Satellites to Track Illegal Fishing in Marine Protected Areas

10. Read Find Information About Anyone Through Social Media OSINT Techniques

11. Read ASCWG CTF Qualification 2025 — Operation Spare Clue Challenge

12. Watch The Dark Side of Crypto: Fraud, Hacks and Hitmen

13. Watch OSINT Gone Wild: How I Found Drug Traffickers and NarcoTerrorists

14. Watch OSINT and misinformation how to navigate ethics and limitations

15. Listen to new podcast episode of StageTalks with BellingCat, Detecting Stolen Art with Arthur Brand.

Newsletter Spotlight

Henk van Ess published a new post, The ChatGPT confession files.

Conspirador Norteño published a new post, Stolen accounts in the blue, blue skies.

OSINT Toolbox

• BrokerCheck - a free tool created by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to research the background and experience of financial advisers and firms.

• OpenRefine - It identifies similar items in a dataset and groups them together. It makes it easy to clear up alternate names, correct spellings or even identify trends.

• European Commission Competition Policy Case Search Tool - Search 68506 decisions by company name, case number and case title. Lots of information about different companies, both European and those with ties to Europe.

• List of academic databases and search engines - A list of dozens of the largest online tools for finding scholarly articles in a wide variety of disciplines.

• Credit for this section goes to Cyb_detective

OSINT Tool Updates

DuckDuckGo now has a filter to hide AI-generated images from image search results. Hopefully, this feature will soon become a standard for all search engines and for all types of searches.

Mystery Box

Uk-osint.com - A very useful site managing good collection of OSINT tools.

Thanks for reading our newsletter. Please feel free to provide feedback and suggestions for this new version. You can contact me at @dheerajydv19 on Twitter, LinkedIn and Telegram.