Welcome to the 6th 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
🎁🔍 Mystery Box
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This Week in OSINT
Read this awesome LinkedIn post, I Used to Say Bad Analysts Collect Tools. Now They Build Dashboards.
Explore Key tools review by Cartel Watch for Mexican OSINT.
Our friends at Ubikron creation a collection of OSINT CTS.
Read, Watch & Listen
Read Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?, An OSINT investigation report by KrebsOnSecurity.
Read OSINT Chinese Companies: How to Investigate Corporate Networks Beyond the Great Firewall
Read Under-16s Social Media Ban: OSINT and Its Implications by OSINT Combine.
Read How to Hide Your Boat about investigating shell companies associated with boats.
Read GHOST: Where OSINT Data Finally Gets Organized!!! about GHOST OSINT CRM.
Read From OSINT to Exploit: Uncovering Auth Bypass and Leaked Credentials showing how OSINT is used in pentesting by Synack.
Read The Advantages of OSINT Tool Consolidation by SkopeNow.
Watch Why Tor and VPNs Don’t Save Hackers by Anon_ali about opsec failures.
Watch Telegram OSINT 101 about OSINT bots.
Listen EP 171: Melody Fraud by Darknet Diaries about frauds in streaming platforms.
Listen 457: How a cybersecurity boss framed his own employee by Smashing Security.
Listen E101 | Navigating the Ransomware Negotiation Landscape by Needle Stack.
Newsletter Spotlight
Secrets of Privacy published The Age Verification Bills Are Bigger Than You Think.
OSINT Toolbox
Shadow broker - Self-hosted worldwide events monitoring map and dashboard.
Video Search Engine - Free online tool to search for videos on different platforms: YouTube, TikTok, VK, Youku, Netflix, Vimeo and many others.(It is based on Google CSE)
PlaceSpotter - Know exactly where a photo was taken instantly (One more geophotolocation tool).
Mystery Box
OSINT Spain - A collection of useful resources for osint investigations in Spain or person residing or citizen of Spain.
Hashclue - The world's first cryptographically committed investigative intelligence game. Read more.