Hello, my dear readers!

Thank you so much for staying with me!

Today I’m going to tell you about the most interesting posts on my Twitter feed made after May 13, 2026.

Multi-search launcher

Search by username, IP, phone, email, domain or keyword.

121 search engines.

Query transformations (including subdomain search, normalize phone, quotes etc)

Import/export settings as JSON.

https://theosintvault.io/multi-search-launcher.html

China Web OSINT Search Dorks

Guide by ArgeliusLabs:

A practical China OSINT workflow
Baidu search syntax and operator behavior
People and professional-biography dorks
Government, regulatory, and licensing dorks

and more.

https://github.com/ArgeliusLabs/chinese_osint_search_dorks/blob/main/guide.md

TraceOne Telegram Search

Search for posts on Telegram channels by keyword. Data from 2021 to the present.

https://traceon.re/dashboard

BraveDown

There are plenty of free online tools for downloading content from various social media platforms.

TikTok, Twitter, VK, Odnoklassniki, Weibo, Threads and others.

https://bravedown.com

The OSINT Grid

Search verified federal, state, county, court, property, inmate, business, licensing, and public record sources across the United States

4,577 Indexed Sources
51 State Grids
65 Federal Sources
51 Jurisdictions

https://theosintvault.io/osint-grid.html

APT Intelligence Tools

Threat Nexus

https://threatnexus.online

APTMap

https://andreacristaldi.github.io/APTmap/

Threat Group Cards: A Threat Actor Encyclopedia

https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi

Global Threat Map

https://bastetsecurity.com/global-threat-map

APT & Threat Actor Resources

https://github.com/BrewedIntel/apt-resources

Mastering Visual OSINT: How to Turn Any Image into Actionable Intelligence

24th August
4pm BST (UTC +1)
Mark Bentley, UserSearch Web Subject Matter Expert and ex-Law Enforcement (NCA & CEOP)

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iff6NVDoSgqwiPy4rodgeg#/registration

FREE. Live Online Training.

People Investigations Tools

- username search
- phone numbers search
- traffic violation search
- vital records search
- inmate records
- genealogy
- social security number search
- face recognition
- court records

https://start.me/p/QLDmA2/people-investigation-personell-intelligence

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Threat Actor Username Search

Search through 2M+ threat actor usernames and find where they operate.

https://threatactorusernames.com/

Although I try to post almost every day, I miss out on a great deal of what’s new in the world of OSINT. If you’re looking for the most comprehensive and detailed lists of new tools on this topic, I’d recommend that you also subscribe to the newsletter.

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This edition of OSINT Insider covers the impact of artificial intelligence on open-source intelligence (OSINT), legal developments affecting digital investigations, a newly reported WhatsApp spyware campaign, tools for collecting data from VK and Facebook, and a comparison of vessel-tracking platforms against OpenSanctions datasets. The following issue offers investigators, journalists, researchers, and analysts practical guidance on emerging OSINT tools, risks, and tradecraft.

The free version of this edition will cover:

• Exploring the Effects of AI on OSINT Jobs

• Detailed Breakdown of OSINT Sectors and Job Opportunities Within Each

• The Latest Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community is Out!

• How The SECURE Data Act Could Change the US Data Privacy Landscape

• The British Virgin Islands Introduce a Potentially Dangerous Request System That May Put Investigators in Danger, Not Reduce Corruption

• A New Social Media Monitoring Platform is Just “An AI Slop”?

• New Reddit Monitoring Tool to See When & Where Relevant Information Is Being Discussed

• A Real-time Container Ship Tracking Service

• Real-time Database of Sanctioned Vessels Across 6 Jurisdictions: Can It Rival OpenSanctions Data?

• How Places You Order Food from Can Reveal Your Location and Movements

• Custom Search Engines in Google are To Be Gone by 2027

• Impressive Updates for an AI-powered Fake Detection Tool

• A New Alternative to The GDELT Project

• A Discord Tools Collection with Unique Lookup Tools

• New Tool Allows Users To View BlueSky Profiles

• Twitter Geocode Searches Are Not Working Properly, and Ways Around It

• A Search Tool for PSN, Steam, Xbox, and Nintendo Platforms

To support the efforts of our editorial team, we provide access to the full edition of OSINT Insiders to our paid subscribers only.

Speaking of our editorial team, OSINT Insider welcomes a new managing editor, Rachel Brooks, who is a founding team reporter from the OSINT-driven newsroom Overt Operator. Special thanks and welcome also goes out to Sofiia, and James as our writer/researcher dynamos!

The full edition includes The Com Corner section. This edition covers the points mentioned above, as well as the following:

• Companies House Glitch Close to Exposing Data of Millions of UK Firms

• Brand New Platform to Assess a Candidate’s Practical OSINT Skills When Hiring

• Reddit Monitoring Platform that Keeps You Updated on Most Popular Discussions and Topics

• New Extension that Pulls VK Data, Including Family and Engagement Data

• Domain Intelligence Tool that Sweeps Over 800 TLDs

• Tool Allowing Access to Reddit Without Connecting to Your Account

• Method for Acoustic Keystroke Recovery Revealed

• A Curated OSINT Tools Resource that Focuses Exclusively on Tools Used in Real-Life Investigations

• An Alternative to Planet Labs Imagery

• New Tool for Gathering Historical Data of Every IP to Ever Exist

• New Tool for Monitoring Pastes from Termbin

• XCancel Alternative that Allows Viewing of Tweets Without Logging In

• OSINT Investigation Reveals UK-registered Crypto Exchanges Run by a Notorious Iranian Regime Supporter

• New Open-Source WhatsApp Spyware Implementation

• Malicious Chrome Extensions Database that Provides Useful Historical Threat Intelligence Data

• New Local Translation Tool Keeps Your Viewing History Confidential and Private

• Advanced Repository for Image Matching

• Another Web Intelligence Reddit Tool, ThinkPol Alternative

• Tool Allows Merging Telegram Channels into One Chronological Feed

• Will the new Google feature get in the way of Tools that Analyze Information Extracted from Google Accounts?

• A New StreetView Processing Tool that Helps with Route Scanning and Analysis

• China’s “Little Red Book” Becomes Valuable To Investigations

• Recent OPSEC Risks of Using Instant Data Scraper and Why a Lack of Transparency May Not Immediately Mean Bad Intentions

• A Repository for Finding Out the Identity Behind a Shared Link, A Potential Fork

• An Alternative to Facebook Sock Puppets

• A Library of Discord ID and Server Lookups, Templates, Embeds, and Webhooks in One Place

The Com Corner Section will look at the following:

• The Com Community on Telegram Reacting to Our Expose of Them

• TLO Data Lookup Tools With a Potential to Violate Someone’s Privacy

Previous Edition:

In the previous edition of the OSINT Insider, we looked at an OSINT company that provides more accurate results than FaceCheck or Pimeyes, ways in which the Com can bypass KYC security checks, and discussed a way to scrape subscriber information held by an Australian broadband provider. We also pursued ways in which investigators can find out more information on a shell company, even when they encounter a registered agent and new OPSEC risks…

Catch the full recap at the link below:

📌 How AI Transforms OSINT Jobs: The View Inside

OSINT Jobs conducted an OSINT practitioners survey in October 2025. This survey included OSINT and threat intelligence analysts, online investigators, and similar roles. The survey scope asked these collective practitioners how AI impacts their work and what changes AI brings to the field. The changes considered included new AI-associated challenges, skill gaps, and emerging AI-associated risks.

AI is reportedly being used to improve OSINT efficiency. The OSINT Jobs survey finds that AI is improving workflows for a variety of tasks. Tasks like complete data collection, large-scale data analysis, and data filtering and structuring, and writing reports are improved with AI use. Overall, the survey highlights that OSINT practitioners today need to bring a mix of technical and cross-disciplinary skills to the table to compete. A mix of methodological technical process and soft skills are in demand for new analysts. Things like writing, data analysis, verification and language skills are listed as high demand skills.

The trend this survey traces is in line with reports that AI’s take over impacts a clear-pattern of data entry and computer programming jobs, and not complex skills.

OSINT analyst roles demand more complex, human skills like interpreting data and connecting dots for investigations. Roles in OSINT are safe from AI elimination at present because of this. Recent research finds that AI is influencing OSINT by enabling analysts to do their jobs more quickly. Dr. Elena Taube Bailey, who spoke for a 2025 seminar on emerging technologies in OSINT, explained that OSINT is “supercharging” the unique value of OSINT. The AI tools are not detracting human value, but rather doubling its reach.

See the full survey breakdown at OSINT Newsletter’s OSINT Jobs.

📌 Got Jobs? A Breakdown of OSINT Career Paths

Also from OSINT Jobs, a comprehensive OSINT jobs taxonomy, outlines the various OSINT sectors and associated careers to explore. It is based on careful analysis of job descriptions, company profiles, and recent hiring patterns and is supposed to give a clearer idea of what sectors OSINT as a field entails and what career paths there are to go down. The OSINT Jobs service has been serving the community since 2021, and continues to track emerging trends in the field.

Here’s a quick look:

OSINT Jobs provided a color wheel (screen captured below) of six key areas where careers are growing:

• Security Operations and Risk

• Public Interest and Accountability

• National Security and Government

• Geopolitical and Strategic Intel

• Cyber Threat Intelligence

• Anti-Fraud, Financial Crime, and Compliance

• Corporate Intel and Investigations

Navigating the color wheel highlights job titles in these key fields that are in hot demand at present. Some examples include SOC analyst roles for Cyber Threat Intelligence or Incident Responder roles.

See the job wheel at OSINT Jobs.

📌 Official 2026 U.S. Intelligence Threat Assessment Recap

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence published the 2026 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community earlier this year. It comes with a warning fort the growing risks the U.S. braces for from the following:

• Transnational crime,

• terrorism,

• cyber threats,

• Weapons proliferation (weapons of mass destruction)

• the power competition with China and Russia.

The threat assessment also highlights technological challenges such as AI and quantum computing as future security concerns.

Regarding cyber threats, the report emphasizes the risk of malicious cyber-attacks on the US infrastructure posed by cyber actors from China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. The risk of cryptocurrency heists and North Korea’s use of unwitting IT workers or workers with falsified credentials is also discussed.

Read the full report here.

📌 How The SECURE Data Act Could Change the US Data Privacy Landscape

The SECURE Data Act introduced this April could affect OSINT platforms and tools by bringing legal risks. The law grants customers across the U.S. the right to access, correct, and delete their personal data, and requires companies to obtain explicit consumer consent before processing sensitive data.

Because of data minimization, in which the law requires data controllers to limit data collection to what is relevant and necessary, the law could disrupt and make OSINT work relying on easy data access and patching federal privacy laws more difficult.

The law is currently undergoing congressional hearings and is worth keeping an eye on as this is likely to affect our work significantly if a national data privacy standard is introduced.

Read the Secure Data Act’s legal text at Congress.gov.

📌 Could the British Virgin Islands’ New Request System Put Investigators at Risk? the Breakdown

The British Virgin Islands, often criticized for being one of the world’s largest secretive offshore jurisdictions, has introduced a new anti-corruption system that allows journalists, NGOs, and other actors to request information about a company’s activities. Once the data request is submitted, the company has 5 business days to object.

Although some support this new rule, transparency advocates warn against this change because of the worry that it may effectively tip corrupt actors off, giving them time to move assets legally to avoid sanctions. This alert system may also put journalists and investigators at risk of retaliation, suggesting potential flaws in the new law.

The OCCRP has a detailed report on this subject that we highly recommend.

📌 New AI Social Media Monitoring Tool: Is It Innovation or AI Slop?

Monitory is a monitoring platform that allows users to track profiles across various social media, including Reddit, TikTok, X, Steam, GitHub, and the web. It can also send you alerts via email, Discord, or webhooks when new posts appear or content changes. Multiple scanners on different platforms for the same user can be created. The tool claims to also be fully anonymous.

There has been a discussion on Reddit about whether the tool is just an “AI slop” or was built by someone with experience.The developer of Monitory published a comment detailing their expertise and experience within the field of OSINT, as well as signposting to posts about the project being at different stages of development posted a while back.

Learn more at monitory.me

📌 New Reddit Tool Tracks the When and Where of Conversations

F5Bot allows you to monitor Reddit, Hacker News, and Lobsters simultaneously across posts, comments, and subreddits by keyword mentions, such as the name of a brand, person, company, or location. There are also filtering flags to further enhance the accuracy of monitoring. It is recommended to be specific with the keywords to narrow down the search. There is a daily search limit on the free plan. F5Bot returns context, timestamp, and the title of the post searched for when returning results.

The bot also supports Slack and Discord integration, which allows you to direct who gets alerted when a specific word is mentioned.

H/T 🎩 to OSINT Combine for bringing this tool to our attention.

Check it out at f5bot.com

📌 Container Ship Tracking Gets a Real Time Service

Flexport Atlas is a real-time container ship and shipping service tracking dashboard that provides a detailed description of a container ship and a port. The interactive map allows you to follow the shipment and see its path. In a way, it works similarly to FlightRadar24.

The Atlas also provides detailed specifications of a given ship.

Given the current geopolitical situation, the fact that the Atlas allows for monitoring the disruptions caused by the conflict in the Middle East is very useful as well.

Learn more about the tool at Flexport Atlas.

📌 Real-Time Sanction Vessels Tracker: Can It Rival Open Sanctions?

FleetLeaks is a real-time database that tracks over 900 sanctioned vessels across the US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It supports search by IMO, MMSI, and vessel name and is updated daily to provide users with the latest updates. It also compiles lists of the most active terminals across the regions.

The tool is built from official sanctions lists, maritime tracking data, and repeatable automation pipelines. Alerts to track specific vessels can also be created.

The tool provides comprehensive data on a given vessel, including its risk assessment, real-time movement (using OpenStreetMap view), recent operations it was involved in, what country it was sanctioned by, and when and where it was last inspected.

Yet, when compared to the information that OpenSanctions provides on the same vessel (through Advanced screening search, entity type “vessel”), it seems that FleetLeaks does focus on general information related to the sanctions as opposed to providing more in-depth information about the vessel itself. OpenSanctions returned a more comprehensive description of the oil tanker, including names of its captain and owner, and cross-references information clearer, which makes fact-checking easier. That said, FleetLeaks provided the vessel’s risk assessment and full port state control inspection history. It seems like the two databases could complement each other really well to provide a better overview of a given vessel.

Image sourced from Open Sanctions.

Check it out at fleekleaks.com

📌 How Your Food Order Can Leak Your Location, Movements

Zomato Intelligence is a tool that demonstrates a privacy issue in the contact recommendation feature of the Zomato app, a food delivery service. By syncing a target phone number, it can retrieve data such as a list of restaurants the person recommended, specific dishes they ordered from those places, and coordinates of the restaurant, which could reveal the target’s approximate movements and visited areas. Unauthorized access to this information could lead to legal consequences as it involves tracking someone’s movements without legal permission.

While the Zomato tool could be useful for monitoring or tracking purposes in an investigation, it should be used with caution, OSINT practitioners generally agree.

Insiders Note: OSINT manuals for code of conduct disciplines are varied, and practitioners debate the differences. We compared a variety of OSINT community codes of conduct, such as the UK OSINT Community Code of Conduct and the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations, to see where these manuals generally reach consensus about a tool like Zomato Intelligence. The result of our comparison across community protocols and disciplines informed our final take on Zomato Intelligence in the above report.

See the tool breakdown yourself on GitHub

📌 Google To 86 Custom Search Engines in 2027: Why the Cut

There are changes coming to custom search engines in Google, which will no longer have the option to do a full web search, starting January 1, 2027.

Since many OSINT tools are built on the back of programmable search engines, it might be time to diversify your toolkit if you use any.

Yet, a small loophole was identified by Henri Beek: if you use filters to limit search results to just one country, you could then use “Sites to Search” to add 50 sites and search as *.nl/* and *.com/*. This will still limit your search results.

A full breakdown was reported by The OSINT Newsletter.

📌 A New Alternative to The GDELT Project

Geoconfirmed is a project that aims to geolocate and verify visuals from 17 conflicts happening around the world, as well as some conflicts that happened in the past. It is driven by volunteers, who monitor social media and news to identify imagery to be later verified using satellite imagery and mapping tools. The tool provides access to interactive conflict maps with sources and coordinates breakdown.

Learn how it works at Geoconfirmed.org

📌 The New Discord Tool Collection: What Stands Out

This Discord Tools Hub centralized a series of Discord tools, including tools for analysis, configuration, formatting, and generative features, as well as lookup and information tools.

The collection includes some unique lookup modules, such as those that check detailed information about Discord invites, including checking whether the URL you plan to use is already taken by another server, and if it is, the information associated with the service that hosts it. Other lookups include features such as viewing information about a Discord server and accessing application information.

See the new toolkit at discordgate.com /tools

📌 Searching BlueSky? New Tools Give the Bird’s Eye View

This free tool allows users to view BlueSky profiles without registration and access information such as profile photos, posts, likes, follows, shares, and profiles that have been blocked.

See the full toolkit on Github

📌 Ways To Work Around Twitter Geocode Not Working

Reddit users discussed how Twitter geocode searches have not been working smoothly in the last few months. On Reddit, users say that the geocode: operator, which used to surface geotagged tweets within a given radius, seems to be broken for recent posts and does not give effective results for exact phrase searches. Users claim that the from: + to: + exact phrase combo also breaks frequently as well.

To work around this, a Reddit user, Pristine-Ticket8822, suggested trying Google dorking with site:x.com, which might pick up on information that X misses. Because combining operators seems to be causing most issues, breaking up complex searches into smaller ones could also help.

AlerteGeo_OSINT on Reddit also recommended using the native X Advanced Search page, available here, as opposed to manual operators, which might handle complex searches better. The Wayback Machine’s CDX API could be useful for archival work as it can recover deleted tweet URLs if the status ID is known.

Catch up with the conversation on Reddit.

📌 Gamer Search Engine: Match Players To Platform Names

Player Search lets you search Epic players by their display name, account ID, or creator code, explore their profiles, and see linked profiles. Results can be exported from the tool as well.

This tool allows you to search across platforms such as PSN, Steam, Xbox, and Nintendo.

See more at epicgames.com/tools

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Hello, my dear readers!

Thank you so much for staying with me!

Today I’m going to tell you about the most interesting posts on my Twitter feed made after October 25, 2025.

The Pika OSINT Toolbox

I already wrote about it a few months ago, but since then a lot of new stuff has been added to the list, and it now has not only a repository but also a website

https://pikaosint.pages.dev

WayBien

Search groups and channels in Telegram, Facebook, Discord and WhatsApp.

Filter results by location, language, category, creation date and member count.

https://waybien.com

Wayback Machine Alternatives

Many of the tools in the list are primarily aimed at preserving pages. However, you can try searching for data saved by others using Google: “keyword site:http://pagefreezer.com“ (similarly for other tools domains).

https://link-assistant.com/news/wayback-machine-alternatives.html

4.7 billion+ domain database

Enter IP/IP range/domain to find associated domains and subdomains.

You also may just do GET-requests from command line.

https://ip.thc.org

25 Satellite Maps To See Earth in New Ways

List of online tools (mostly free or partly free) by GisGeography

https://gisgeography.com/satellite-maps/

Ubikron Graphs

Extract potentially interesting items from web pages (full names, domains, nicknames, etc.) and add them to the graph instantly

Add links and images (captured from web pages) to nodes, and search for mentions of nodes in saved pages

and a million other things (it’s better to see this tool for yourself than to read a description of it).

Telegram posts search tool

175,000,000+ posts
2,000,000+ channels
Data range from 2026-03-09 (for free search)

Partly free

https://deaddrop.theosintconsultants.com/dashboard

OSINT FOR COUNTRIES MAP

Interactive world map with 1157 #osint tools and resources links for 242 countries and territories.

https://map.wddadk.com (may be unavailable at the moment, please try again later)

OSINT CTFs

List of Capture The Flag platforms that will help you improve your #OSINT skills:

OSINT Industries CTF
TryHackMe
Hacktoria
Diver OSINT CTF
Maltego Community CTF
Gralhix (Sofia Santos) OSINT Analysis & Exercises
UK OSINT CTF

and others.

https://github.com/ubikron/OSINT-CTFs

This all for today.

Thank you very much for your attention!

Links to all my projects can be found here:

cybdetective.com

I hope to send you another letter in 1-3 weeks.

P.S. I always hope so, but the last newsletter was six months ago. So, feel free to subscribe.

Thank you so much for staying with me!

Today I’m going to tell you about the most interesting posts on my Twitter feed made after April 13, 2025.

Library of Leaks

Search by keyword (full name, email, company) in leaked documents, emails, tables, images and other files. 29M+ public entities.

https://search.libraryofleaks.org/

Well-Known Resource Index

An online tool to scan a website and find potentially sensitive information on it:

- robots.txt file

- security.txt

- ads.txt

- assetlinks.json

- app-ads.txt

- gpc.json and others.

https://well-known.dev

PDFSearch

Online tool for searching over 18 million PDF documents. One advantage over other document search engines is that the table of contents of the documents found is displayed right in the search results.

PDFSearch.io

FaceSeek

A tool for reverse face search by photo. Free functionality is limited (found images are partially blurred and only part of the URL is displayed)

https://faceseek.online

Domain Hunter

Search domains by keywords and filter by TLD (10M+ domains mapped). 50 results free, export to JSON + quick links to Shodan, VirusTotal, URLScanIO and URLVoid.

http://domainhunter.pro

PageCached

A simple and free online service for finding old versions of web pages in search engine caches and web archives.

https://pagecached.com/

XCancel

Free online tool to view and search tweets without registering on Twitter.

https://xcancel.com

ODCrawler

Open directory search engine. Search videos, audio, images, archives and more.

https://odcrawler.xyz

Troove Web Archive Full Text Search

Archive org does not yet have full text search of saved copies of pages, except for collections (Telegram, Pastebin etc). But other web archives have such a feature. For example, Australian Troove (7,5B+ snapshots for .com domains + other domains).

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/

Ubikron

- extract “juicy info” from webpages (emails, phones, names, domains etc)

- get additional info from dozens #osint tools (@epieos, @Info_IntelX, @internetarchive etc)

- make clippings and annotations

- save webpages as MHTML

- create reports

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ubikron/edfkaefjonbohokoldemepfolefiplgd

Filmot

I already did a tweet about YouTube’s subtitle search engine a few years ago, but since then it’s very much expanded its functionality and increased its search index: 1.33 billion transcripts 1.18 billion videos 72 million channels

https://filmot.com

YouTube Video Finder

Search video info (thumbnails, metadata) by ID in different sources:

Wayback Machine

GhostArchive

Distributed YouTube Archive

Hobune Stream

Filmot

RemovedEDM

Odysee

PreserveTube

https://findyoutubevideo.thetechrobo.ca/

Bing Maps Bird’s Eye

I have tweeted many times about services for viewing satellite images and mentioned Bing Maps in them. Note that aerial images (Bird’s eye) are also available for some locations (primarily in the United States). New details from a different perspective

RExpository

List of 200+ regular expressions for sensitive data extraction: - usernames - IPs - emails - API Keys - Access Tokens - Hashes and others.

https://jaimepolop.github.io/RExpository/

This all for today.

Thank you very much for your attention!

Links to all my projects can be found here:

cybdetective.com

I hope to send you another letter in 1-3 weeks.

P.S. I always hope so, but the last newsletter was six months ago. So, feel free to subscribe.

Thank you so much for staying with me!

Today I'm going to tell you about the most interesting posts on my Twitter feed made after March 14, 2025.

Little Google Apps Script Trick

Substack blocked my account for a week last month (it was mistakenly blocked for spam, probably because my newsletters have a lot of links in them). In my personal cabinet, the ability to export the list of subscribers was disabled. But there is a way to automatically collect them from mail using Google Apps Script. Details in this article:

https://medium.com/@cyb_detective/substack-locked-my-account-9880b56f5ab0

Reddit User Insights

A tool that analyzes a Reddit user's comments and, with the help of AI, makes assumptions about their gender, age, occupation, interests, brand mentions(!) and other properties.

https://vapor.selva.ee

Profile Image Intel

By the date the profile picture was uploaded, you can determine the possible creation date of the account. This service displays the avatar update date in WhatsApp/FaceBook by username and in some other social networks by URL 3 searches + tutorials free

https://profileimageintel.com

Deep Find Me Tools

DeepFindMe free online tools

- username search

- geolocation by photo

- metadata extractor

- subdomains/WHOIS/DNS lookup and more.

https://deepfind.me/tools

Best OSINT Books

BEST #OSINT Books List by @OsintTeamBlog:

- digital Investigations

- cybersecurity

- investigative journalism

- OPSEC

- sourcing

- national security

- intelligence mindset

https://osintteam.com/books/

FilePhish

Free online query builder for searching sensitive data files on a target domain in different search engines.

https://greylensresearch.github.io/filephish/

Awesome Search Engines for Cybersecurity Researchers

https://github.com/onhexgroup/Awesome-Search-Engines-for-Cybersecurity-Researchers

AI Research Pilot

AI Research Pilot A free online tool that automatically generates prompts for 17 types of researches for different AI assistants (Perplexity, ChatGPT, You, Gemini, Mistral AI etc).

https://digitaldigging.org/research/

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Library of Leaks

Search by keyword (full name, email, company) in leaked documents, emails, tables, images and other files. 29M+ public entities.

https://search.libraryofleaks.org

Telegram OSINT Experts Society

If you're interested in my posts, you'll probably be interested in the Linkedin OSINT Experts Society group posts (I don't have my own Linkedin profile, but I do give content advice). A couple of weeks ago OSINT Experts Society became available to read on Telegram as well.

https://t.me/osint_experts_society

Thank you very much for your attention!

Links to all my projects can be found here:

cybdetective.com

I hope to send you another letter in 1-3 weeks.

Thank you so much for staying with me!

Today I'm going to tell you about the most interesting posts on my Twitter feed made after November 14, 2024.

Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector

An extension that determines if the video or sound is AI generated (a few seconds of recording is enough). 20 checks per day for free.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hiya-deepfake-voice-detec/akmieeldmgcllmokbpaibfelofjiilpc

Open Library

Open Library A tool to search for free books in the Internet Archive. Search by title, author, subject, place, publisher and full text.

http://openlibrary.org

Google Switch for Google Lens

When searching for a location by photo: 1. First identify the country using AI (Geospy, Picarta etc) 2. Search for a picture in Google Lens with the settings of that country and neighboring countries with this extension:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/googleswitch/gleogimfdeaapagejhfmlgkgenfiaoha

OPENSKY

Open (free) air traffic data for research:

- live data

- historical data

- tracking 264K+ aircrafts

- scientific datasets

- #Python library https://github.com/open-aviation/pyopensky

http://opensky-network.org

PayPal Email Search

An old but very effective #OSINT tip, which it is not a sin to be reminded of once again. Thanks to x.com/OSINT_Tactical.

Search Google Drive Files connected to domain (and deleted files too)

1. Open index․commoncrawl․org

2. Search URL Pattern "drive․google․com/a/+target domain+/"

Be patient. Try different indexes (since domain registration date). Doesn't work for all domains.

Pastebin search tips

1. Search by keywords in archive org collection search http://web.archive.org/collection-search/pastebin.com/ (last update 2023)

2. Search fresh pastes links in http://index.commoncrawl.org

3. Search in Pastebin and dozens other paste sites with this Google CSE:

http://cybdetective.com/pastebin.html

DDOS secrets nickname/full name search

When gathering info by nickname/full name, don't forget the leaked documents archives (DDOsecrets, WikiLeaks etc.) Personal data of millions of people out there ( emails in correspondence archives, full names in business records etc).

OnionEngine

Search engine for sites in the .onion domain zone. Works without Tor browser.

http://onionengine.com

Darkweb Daily Live

Dashboard with links to various onion sites and indicators of their current availability.

https://darkwebdaily.live/

UrlscanIO nickname search

Another free method of finding information by nickname or last name.

urlscan.io page.url advanced search operator: page.url:"/targetusername/" Works the same as inurl: in Google, but the results are very different.

Linkedin OSINT content

Lately, I have been learning more and more OSINT news from Linkedin and I recommend my readers to pay attention to this social network as well.

First, I would recommend subscribing to the OSINT Experts Society Group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13047129/). It belongs to my old friends at UserSearch.ai and I help them make posts.

To answer a frequently asked question, I'm not Logan, I'm Irina, I don't have my Linkedin profile.

There are also a lot of interesting OSINT bloggers on Linkedin. For example, Valdemar Balle, Alex Lozano and Aidan Raney. The latter, by the way, has recently started doing Substack newsletter:

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I hope to send you another letter in 1-3 weeks.

Thank you so much for staying with me!

Today I'm going to tell you about the most interesting posts on my Twitter feed made after August 5, 2024.

Sensitive data dorks

New section in my "Dorks collections list" Github repo https://github.com/cipher387/Dorks-collections-list: Sensitive data dorks.

It contains links to articles with sample queries to find erroneously discovered documents with important information on company websites.

Google .log files search

When gathering information about a website, don't forget that Google indexes logs. With ‘filetype:log site:yourtarget’ or ‘filetype:log intext:targetrelatedkeyword’ you can find useful technical information for investigation. Tip by x.com/AlHomaidNoor

Get Whatsapp Profile Information by phone number

ID, description, email, website, location etc (works not only for business but also for personal accounts, WhatsApp Login no required)

http://whatsapp.checkleaked.cc

OSINT ROCKS - 7 free online OSINT Tools

GHUNT - Google account info

Sherlock - nickname enumeration

Holehe - search accounts by email

Ignorant - search accounts by phone

Whois domain lookup

WhatsApp profile info

HudsonRock - email leaks lookup

http://osint.rocks

Tools for searching emails for a specific domain:

https://snov.io/email-finder

https://experte.com/email-finder

https://github.com/Josue87/EmailFinder

https://github.com/GiJ03/Infoga

https://infoga.io

https://findemail.io

https://hunter.io/domain-search

https://anymailfinder.com/email-finder-by-domain

https://minelead.io

Research papers search engines

https://science.gov

https://search.worldcat.org

https://researchgate.net

https://core.ac.uk

https://link.springer.com

https://base-search.net

https://refseek.com

https://consensus.app

https://jstor.org

Wayback Machine collection search

@BanPangar shared a method for finding emails/nicknames mentions in the text of web pages/docs with archive.org collection search. Help find a lot of things that don't show up in Google results. Don't forget the quotes.

Wayback Machine Telegram Collection Search

- 597,269,554 Telegram (t me) pages

- ability to find deleted content

- ability to see all search results (not just a small portion, as in Google)

- advanced search filters

Bluesky Tips

After the US election, Americans are abandoning Twitter en masse in favor of other platforms. In the last week, the number of BlueSky users has increased by several million. In addition, many people who abandoned their BlueSky accounts in the summer and fall of 2023 are starting them up again.

I've been doing daily posts there for over a year now. And on my profile, you can find tips for BlueSky users that I don't post on Twitter and other platforms.

Thank you very much for your attention!

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Hello, my dear readers!

Thank you so much for staying with me!

Today I'm going to tell you about the most interesting posts on my Twitter feed made after April 22, 2024.

EARTHKIT

Upload image Select an area on the map

Get points on Google Street

View panoramas similar to the original image (still working with small areas)

http://earthkit.app

+ photo geolocation estimation and Overpass Turbo queries AI generation

New cheat sheets

VIDEO OSINT

YouTube OSINT

Advanced search operators

https://github.com/cipher387/cheatsheets

Wayback Keyword Search

A simple #Python tool that allows you to download all pages of a certain website for a certain period of time and do keyword searches in them

https://github.com/lorenzoromani1983/wayback-keyword-search

Creator

FRAVIA: The Art of Searching

Francesco Vianello (Fravia) was one of the first internet search professionals.

In the early 2000s, he published his research on SearchLores com. Here's a PDF version of this site with additions.

https://github.com/soxoj/FRAVIA

60 indicators to find potentially related sites

http://informationlaundromat.com analyses the html code of a website and extracts 60+ indicators from it to help find other related sites (using IP search engines like Shodan, Netlas, Censys or source code search engines like PublicWWW).

Google Dorks for Bug Bounty

List of search queries example:

- sensitive documents

- code leaks

- cloud storages

- login pages

- API Endpoints

- server errors and more.

https://github.com/TakSec/google-dorks-bug-bounty…

Contributor @TakSec

Backup Files Finder

A template for the Nuclei vulnerability scanner that allows to search for backup files on a target site.

https://github.com/valaDevs/nuclei-backupfile-finder…

Creator @Vabro_

LAZYEGG

Tool for extracting different data from web pages:

- cookies

- leaked credentials

- domains

- ips

- images

- links

and more.

https://github.com/schooldropout1337/nuclei-templates/blob/main/lazyegg.py…

Creator @gudetama_bf

URLDNA

Free online tool for gathering info about URL:

- screenshot

- SSL certificates

- IP addresses

- title/body text

- cookies

- technologies

- http requests

- headers

- console messages

- metatags

and more.

http://urldna.io

UserSearch AI Linkedin Group

I recommend subscribing to my old mates' Linkedin group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13047129/

There's a lot of interesting stuff:

• see Twitter, Instagram and YouTube posts on a map

• convert YouTube videos to text

• search engines that search photos by face

• view .onion sites without Tor Browser

• free and partially free alternatives to ChatGPT

• 8 online tools for find approximate location by photo or picture

Thank you very much for your attention!

Links to all my projects can be found here:

I hope to send you another letter in 1-3 weeks.

Hello, my dear readers!

Thank you so much for staying with me!

Today I'm going to tell you about the most interesting posts on my Twitter feed made after March 28, 2024.

A small update to the Quick Archive org viewer

Now you can view not only old versions of the website from different years, but also from different months of one particular year.

https://cybdetective.com/webarchiveviewer/

Google Maps Scraper

Total FREE.

NO LOGIN REQUIRED.

Slowly (be patient).

Scrape links to place, titles, phones, websites, links to images and much more!

https://github.com/gosom/google-maps-scraper

Detailed instruction:

https://osintteam.blog/how-to-use-google-maps-scraper-for-osint-9e243ea756b1

New cheat sheets

First/Last name #OSINT mini cheat sheet

Wayback Machine cheat sheet

EMAIL OSINT mini cheat sheet

Investigating the target website files cheat sheet (for article 3 main techniques for automating document search and analysis on a company’s website https://publication.osintambition.org/3-main-techniques-for-automating-document-search-and-analysis-on-a-companys-website-66e5c3f5c87c)

https://github.com/cipher387/cheatsheets

Resources for quick Darknet researches

Access onion sites online without Tor browser:

https://tor2web.activetk.jp

https://4everproxy.com/tor-proxy

https://browserling.com/tor-testing (slowly)

OPEN INDEX

A stable and fast search engine for finding sites in the .onion zone.

ufll4rxvrbjjgpiq2fhw6zrqf6gbz7acmgzjtmcvbkb6tgnagld5biad[.]onion

Github repos with lists of links to .onion zone domains:

https://github.com/The-Hidden-Wiki-URLs/2024

https://github.com/darknet-onion-links/darknet-onion-links-catalog

https://github.com/5ky1ar/Awesome-Onion-Links

https://github.com/RheaPomarico4467/onion-trust

https://github.com/01Kevin01/OnionLinksV3

https://github.com/praveenjalasutram/Darkweb-Onion-Links

https://github.com/UvinduBro/darkweb-links

SOWEL instructions

SOWEL (SOcmint Weaknesses Enumeration List) by includes a lot of interesting information about #socmint, including some detailed multi-step instructions for different tasks:

How to confirm a connection between people https://sowel.soxoj.com/Instructions/How+to+confirm+a+connection+between+people

How to detect a fake account https://sowel.soxoj.com/Instructions/How+to+detect+a+fake+account

42 possible steps (with links to instructions) you can take to try to deanonymise a social media account https://sowel.soxoj.com/Instructions/How+to+deanonymize+an+account

Thank you very much for your attention!

Links to all my projects can be found here:

I hope to send you another letter in 1-3 weeks.

Hello, my dear readers!

Thank you so much for staying with me!

Today I'm going to tell you about the most interesting posts on my Twitter feed made after March 9, 2024.

Reverse Face Search cheatsheet

Search engines, detect geolocation by face and a lot of tools to change face with AI.

Gathering information about the company's website

- search subdomains

- search possible related websites

- extract "Juicy info" from web pages

- search links to documents

- extract metadata

Image OSINT tools cheat sheet

- search engines

- detect geolocation by photo

- search website by favicon

- metadata/steganography/forensic

- AI image editing

CRYPTO #OSINT (mini cheat sheet)

- regex for searching wallet addresses

- universal blockchain explorers

- scammers database search

- advanced tools lists

Pay attention to the CyberTrace tool (cybertrace.com.au) on this list. This is a small Australian #osint company. Sometimes, they do in-depth research. For example, they made a comparison table of the quality of different emails search services.

You can apply for free early access to their new tools for collecting information about emails, phone numbers and crypto wallets. You can also sign up for their Substack newsletter.

USERNAME OSINT mini cheat sheet

• username enumeration webapps

• username enumeration command line tools

• generate username variations

• IP search engine queries

• Google queries

• domain name search

• mentions in social media

Cybdetective.com update

I've changed my website a little bit. There are now links to the most important projects in my opinion. I also moved some old and very simple online tools from Github Pages, made back in 2021.

I also recommend that you pay special attention to the new tool.

Quick Archive․org viewer

A very simple online tool that will save you time looking at old versions of a page. Just enter a link, wait a while and see how the page looked like in different years. Especially useful for researching social network profiles.

https://cybdetective.com/webarchiveviewer/

Thank you very much for your attention!

Links to all my projects can be found here:

I hope to send you another letter in 1-3 weeks.

Hello, my dear readers!

Thank you so much for staying with me!

Today I'm going to tell you about the most interesting posts on my Twitter feed made after January 21, 2024.

Tools to identify a location from an uploaded photo using AI

http://geospy.web.app (free + paid PRO version)

http://usersearch.org (paid)

http://huggingface.co/spaces/ydshieh/Kosmos-2 (free)

http://picarta.ai (free trial)

http://labs.tib.eu/geoestimation/ (free)

https://huggingface.co/spaces/visheratin/mc-llava-3b (free)

Ways to find related websites

Don't forget that there are at least 8 other methods to find related sites besides subdomain search:

- favicon

- DNS name servers

- whois contacts

- file mentions

- mail servers

- whois organization name

- Google Analytics IDs

- other IDs

https://github.com/netlas-io/netlas-cookbook?tab=readme-ov-file#9-ways-to-search-related-websites

Quick Cache and Archive Search

Due to recent events, I removed Google and a couple of other defunct search engines/archives from Quick Cache and archive search. But remember that there are still dozens of possible ways to find old copies of a web page.

https://cipher387.github.io/quickcache

Tools to search for people's contacts (most free or trial free)

http://x-ray.contact

http://datalead.ai

http://signalhire.com

http://predictasearch.com

http://usersearch.org

http://snov.io

http://castrickclues.com

http://osint.industries

http://epieos.com

OSINT cheat sheets

As you may have noticed I've started making cheat sheets for tweets. Their source image files and text versions can be found in this repo:

https://github.com/cipher387/cheatsheets

- Linux for OSINT cheatsheet

- Telegram OSINT

- GEOINT

- Python for OSINT cheat sheet

- Awesome Hackers Search Engines

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Links to all my projects can be found here:

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I hope to send you another letter in 1-3 weeks.

Hello, my dear readers!

Thank you so much for staying with me!

In this newsletter I want to tell you about my new articles about using AI tools and OverPass Turbo for GEOINT.

2 ways to find the full email of a place on Google Maps

A few days ago, Pangar Ban published a post on how to find part of an email linked to a location on Google Maps. This article describes possible ways to find the full email using OverPass Turbo or IP search engines.

https://publication.osintambition.org/2-ways-to-find-the-full-email-of-a-place-on-google-maps-b441458bb467

A 1-minute way to geolocate road signs that show the distance to the nearest cities

From this article you will learn how to quickly find the intersection point between cities by drawing circles of the appropriate radius using FreeMapTools, how to determine the approximate geolocation of a photo using AI and work with zones around cities using OverPass Turbo.

https://publication.osintambition.org/a-1-minute-way-to-geolocate-road-signs-that-show-the-distance-to-the-nearest-cities-9e8d4d08b93b

How to geolocate public transport photo using OverPass Turbo and AI

A simple note on how to search for routes in OverPass Turbo by their number, type, and destination plant name.

https://publication.osintambition.org/how-to-geolocate-public-transport-photo-using-overpass-turbo-and-ai-32fd3dfc1849

GeoSpy + OpenStreetMap search = super power

Example of how you can work with street signs in BellingCat OpenStreetMapSearch tool. In order to find an object, it is enough only one word or even three letters from its name.

https://publication.osintambition.org/geospy-openstreetmap-search-super-power-a5c0a4028cdc

Many thanks to OsintAmbition for helping me promote my articles on Medium, and to Graylark ( ) for creating the free GeoSpy AI tool that maximises the search area and saves time on OverPass queries.

Thank you very much for your attention!

Links to all my projects can be found here:

https://cybdetective.com

I hope to send you another letter in 1-3 weeks.

Happy New Year, my dear readers!

Thank you so much for staying with me!

In this newsletter I want to tell you about my new free book, which was released on 28 December (Linus Torvalds birthday).

Linux for OSINT. 21-day course for beginners

Only 12,000 words in the book (1 hour to read).

https://github.com/cipher387/linux-for-OSINT-21-day/blob/main/Linux%20for%20OSINT.pdf

This is a very simple course and no special training is required to take it. Just relax and follow the instructions.

After taking this course you will see how easy, fast and efficient it is to automate various OSINT tasks with Linux utilities.

And don't forget that this is my second book about OSINT automation!

First. - Python for OSINT. 21-day course for beginners

It is also very simple and does not require any special training from the reader. Some tasks in the books are very similar but are solved in different ways.

Combined with Netlas CookBook (https://github.com/netlas-io/netlas-cookbook), these three books will allow you to learn a great deal about OSINT automation in just three hours of reading.

I also want to recommend to you the Substack author of the Twitter account Officer CIA (https://twitter.com/officer_cia), whom you probably know. If you don't know, you can read about it on vice.com.

Officer's Substack

Here you will find interesting long-form analyses on OSINT (including crypto investigations) and cybersecurity in general. Few examples:

Officer's Substack

OSINT Lesson №1: Mind-Mapping

Today, I’d like to discuss how to become a competent OSINT investigator. Before we get started, though, let me clarify a little bit: I will only cover a portion of the subject because it is so broad that a single guide cannot possibly cover it all. Nevertheless…

Read more

3 years ago · Officer's Notes

Officer's Substack

OSINT Lesson №2: Occam’s Razor & Intuition

In today’s digital age, information has become more accessible than ever before. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) has emerged as a potent tool for gathering and analyzing this vast wealth of publicly available data. Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash…

Read more

3 years ago · Officer's Notes

Officer's Substack

OSINT Lesson №3: AI, ChatGPT & Choosing a Pathway to Follow

Information has enormous power in the modern digital age, and access to it is now essential in many different fields. Investigative techniques could be completely changed by integrating ChatGPT and AI with OSINT activities as AI technologies advance…

Read more

3 years ago · Officer's Notes

Officer's Substack

Exploring the Potential for Life in the Internet and Blockchain

As technology continues to advance, we find ourselves increasingly immersed in the digital realm. The internet and blockchain have emerged as powerful technological innovations that have transformed the way we communicate, conduct business, and interact with one another…

Read more

3 years ago · Officer's Notes

Officer's Substack

Unfolding Ancient Wisdom: How Ancient Stories Teach Modern Humans about Security and OpSec

In today’s digital age, concerns surrounding security and OpSec (Operational Security) are paramount. As we navigate a world filled with cybersecurity threats and information breaches, looking back at ancient stories may seem unconventional. From the biblical tale of…

Read more

3 years ago · Officer's Notes

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Links to all my projects can be found here:

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I hope to send you another letter in 1-3 weeks.

Thank you so much for staying with me!

In this newsletter, I will tell you about the most interesting things that have been published on my Twitter in the last week.

See the history of Twitter profile username changes

https://api.memory.lol/v1/tw/jr_majewski

(open link in browser and replace jr_majewski to other username)

Source code: https://github.com/travisbrown/memory.lol

10 Google dorks for search personal data breaches

https://medium.com/@as-squirrel/10-advanced-google-dork-queries-for-osint-privacy-breach-identification-ec2a4daa6739

Using Maltego for #socmint (article from XIT)

Part 1. Installing and set up Maltego

https://x-it.medium.com/part1-social-media-investigation-using-maltego-39708087abaa

Part 2. 28 Powerful Data Integrations (transformation) for Maltego

https://x-it.medium.com/part2-social-media-investigation-28-powerful-data-integrations-for-maltego-44c8e2105565

How to find subdomains with Netlas?

Search (https://app.netlas.io/responses/):

uri:*.domain.com*

Group results by domain, host, ip or uri.

Read more:

https://github.com/netlas-io/netlas-cookbook

New article in my Medium blog

How to use Python Sitemap Generator for OSINT?

How to find all links on pages/files of a certain website, filter links to files with a certain extension and download for further analysis.

https://medium.com/@cyb_detective/how-to-use-python-sitemap-generator-for-osint-77bc69fa165d

Thank you very much for your attention!

Links to all my projects can be found here:

https://cybdetective.com

I hope to send you another letter in 1-3 weeks.

Thank you so much for staying with me!

In this newsletter, I will tell you about the most interesting things that have been published on my Twitter in the last week.

Using GoBuster for OSINT

How to search for web pages and documents on a target domain that are not indexed by Google and that are not shown in the sitemap (not linked anywhere) ?

Use GoBuster and good wordlists for brute-force file search.

https://medium.com/@cyb_detective/how-to-use-gobuster-for-osint-905bc9360024

Tools to search for people's contacts

Many are paid, but with an option for a free test.

http://x-ray.contact

http://datalead.ai

http://signalhire.com

http://snov.io

http://castrickclues.com

http://osint.industries

http://epieos.com

Tip by @0xtechrock

List of VMs and Linux distributions for OSINT from cyberhansu

https://medium.com/@cyberhansu/osint-virtual-machines-and-distributions-for-practice-65dbd19928fc

How to Recognize AI-Generated Pictures, Videos, and Audio

I recently consulted the editors of the Social Links Center of Excellence Team and the result is a short article with simple, practical tips for recognizing AI fakes (and explanations of why it's getting harder to do so every day).

https://blog.sociallinks.io/how-to-recognize-ai-generated-pictures-videos-and-audio/

Sherlock Linux

Based on Debian 12 Linux distribution with a lot of pre-installed #OSINT tools.

https://github.com/SherlockLinux/SherlockLinux

Google Bug Bounty Dorks Generator

- juicy extensions

-open redirects

- code leaks

- cloud storages

- file upload endpoints

and more.

https://taksec.github.io/google-dorks-bug-bounty/…

Thank you very much for your attention!

Links to all my projects can be found here:

https://cybdetective.com

I hope to send you another letter in 1-3 weeks.

Hello, dear readers!

Thank you so much for staying with me!

In this newsletter, I will tell you about the most interesting things that have been published on my Twitter in the last five weeks.

YouTube Reverse Search Tool

This tool helps you find videos that are hard to find in the usual way. It ranks the search results in reverse order (first those videos that have the least likes and views).

https://activetk.jp/tools/yt-not-well-known

India #OSINT resources

Criminal records

Court records

Missing persons

Archives

Phone numbers search

Transport Search engines

and more.

https://start.me/p/vjR5wL/osint-resources-in-india

Contributor @D4rkPhoneix

OSINT Poland

Public Records

Archives Dating sites

Public registers

Phone books

Forums

Maps

Slang dictionaries

and much more.

https://github.com/9wind/OSINT-Poland

Digital Forensics Lab (lesson slides)

- Basic Networking Skills for DFIR

- Computer and DFIR

- Computer Forensics Case Study

- Mobile/IoT Forensics Case Study

- Forensic Intelligence Repository

- AI for Forensics

https://github.com/frankwxu/digital-forensics-lab

How to learn OSINT automation?

The power of #OSINT in automation. There are many ways to gain this power, but I would recommend:
1. Learn the basics of Python + some Python OSINT tricks ( https://github.com/cipher387/python-for-OSINT-21-days…).
2. Practise your new skills on some REST APIs (https://github.com/netlas-io/netlas-cookbook…)

New articles in my Medium blog

8 basic methods of automating the collection of information from company websites

Google search bad. What to do?

Thank you very much for your attention!

Links to all my projects can be found here:

https://cybdetective.com

I hope to send you another letter in 2-3 weeks.

Company investigation 17-step checklist:

General overview

Real estate

Databreaches

Company website

Legal information

Sanctions

Intellectual property

Import/Export

Lobbying

Corruption

Investments

Public data requests

Employers Dataviz

https://companyinvestigationsv1.tiiny.site

twitter.com/Techjournalisto

Sophia Santos OSINT exercises solutions

Articles about solutions Sophia Santos #OSINT exercises from twitter.com/jonny_ghizmo:

011 https://medium.com/osint-ambition/write-up-exercise-011-facial-recognition-4f56fdb2bb6a…

020 https://medium.com/@JonnyGhizmo/exercise-020-traveling-back-in-time-with-osint-71d2ead28391…

019 https://medium.com/@JonnyGhizmo/exercise-019-geolocating-a-phone-call-724d6dd8d51b…

010 https://medium.com/@JonnyGhizmo/exercise-010-a-voodoo-write-up-5c1a51dd6bdb…

009 https://medium.com/@JonnyGhizmo/exercise-009-chronolocation-1993ad37ce98…

Also in this blog - 006, 007, 008, 002, 005

Resources for facial recognition, identification & reverse face search

New article from twitter.com/osintme:

https://osintme.com/index.php/2023/09/30/resources-for-facial-recognition-identification-reverse-face-search/

#osint #socmint

OSINT Earth

A collection of links to public records databases for finding information on people and companies around the world. Creator @osintearth

Thanks for tip @akaclandestine

http://osint.earth

MAILTO ANALYZER

.mbox files analyzer will show your email address exposure on various services.

Helps you find all the sites you are registered.

The tool does not transfer data to third-party servers.

https://github.com/soxoj/mailto_analyzer

Creator

My new job

Since the beginning of October I have been working at netlas.io (search engine to find and analyze information about all IP addresses and domains available on the Internet.).

And now I will have regular tweets about the possibilities of this service for OSINT (remember that 50 searches per day can be done for free).

Please take a look at our joint project with netlas.io:

NETLAS COOKBOOK

Will be useful for everyone who wants to learn how to use IP search engines for #OSINT and automate this process using various REST APIs (not only Netlas).

https://github.com/netlas-io/netlas-cookbook

Thank you very much for your attention!

Links to all my projects can be found here:

https://cybdetective.com

I hope to send you another letter in 2-3 weeks.

Three months ago I decided to end the Cyber Detective project and wrote you a "last letter".

But, as you already know, I didn't have the willpower to finish the Cyber Detective project and since mid-July I've been posting tweets there again.

By numerous requests from readers, starting from this day I am resuming Cyber Detective newsletter in the old format (1-2 letters per month and only the most important tweets and articles)

In this issue I will briefly tell you about the most, in my opinion, interesting tweets from cyb_detective account and updates of my projects in the last month (June 16 - 20 September).

My new website

It was the third year of the Cyber Detective project. Last month I finally got my act together, registered the domain http://cybdetective.com and collected links to all my social networks on it.

Also I finally moved the Worldwide OSINT tools map from Github Pages to my domain. https://cybdetective.com/osintmap/ (160+ countries, 90+ cities and regions, 690+ tools).

https://publication.osintambition.org/when-you-need-search-by-nickname-in-public-ip-addresses-search-engines-shodan-netlas-fofa-etc-59d92af047ccAlso on my website you can find answers to the 10 most popular questions I get asked in direct messages.

New article: When you need search by nickname in public IP addresses search engines (Shodan, Netlas, Fofa etc)

After 4 months of procrastination, I finally wrote an article on Medium about gathering info about usernames:
- basics tools for nickname enumeration
- search URLs with nickname
- using ip search engines for nickname info gathering

https://publication.osintambition.org/when-you-need-search-by-nickname-in-public-ip-addresses-search-engines-shodan-netlas-fofa-etc-59d92af047cc

I would be very grateful to anyone who shares a link to this article on their social networks (especially outside of Twitter).

Some interesting tweets

https://gralhix.com/list-of-osint-exercises/

https://medium.com/@ronkaminskyy/geolocating-social-links-co-founder-via-osint-techniques-5172b9400cb

https://www.maltego.com/blog/how-to-conduct-person-of-interest-investigations-using-osint-and-maltego/

https://github.com/dfir-dd/dfir-toolkit

Thank you very much for your attention!

Links to all my projects can be found here: https://cybdetective.com

I hope to send you another letter in 2-3 weeks.

In this newsletter I will briefly tell you about the most, in my opinion, interesting tweets from cyb_detective account and updates of my projects in the last month (May 8 - June 16).

Article: Extract contact information from resumes using the Python duckduckgo_search package and PDFgrep utility. 4 steps simple guide

In this short post, I’m going to tell you about a very simple and quick way to collect contact information from DuckDuckGo search results.

We will use the Python library duckduckgo_search and the PDFgrep utility.

https://medium.com/@cyb_detective/extract-contact-information-from-resumes-using-the-python-duckduckgo-search-package-and-pdfgrep-9ba729ed868c

Python for OSINT. Free 21 day course Notion template

I already told you about this course in the last newsletter and gave you a link to the book in PDF format. If you haven't taken it yet, I recommend that you try installing Notion and copying this template into your account. Email notifications will help you be disciplined.

https://elated-herring-608.notion.site/c3b34c75a408458e8d3cb013adeab5fd?v=de729dfd0c3c483f8b7fb708ed6a3911

osm-search.bellingcat.com

A tool for locating photos and satellite images: Specify the objects you see and the distance between them (ex: a 10-story building 80 meters from a park). Select a search area (ex: a district of a city) Get a list of places that fit the description.

"Best online tools for #Telegram investigations"

An article with small list of the most important search engines, directories, online services, and bots for finding any information in Telegram.

https://medium.com/@TheInvestigatorBlog/best-online-tools-for-telegram-investigations-9746b17c90d8…

Email OSINT

Free online tool from @OsintIndustries. Enter email and get a list of accounts that may be associated with it (accounts for which this email was used to register or those where the email in the profile description).

https://osint.industries/email

Awesome Anti-Forensic

List of tools for countering #forensic activities:

Data tampering

Hiding process

Encryption/Obfuscation

Steganography

Cleaner/Data

Destruction/Wiping

and more.

https://github.com/shadawck/awesome-anti-forensic

Who's behind this website?

Detailed checklist for investigations. Tips and tools.

https://github.com/jonkeegan/behind-this-website…

Thank you very much for your attention!

Links to all my projects can be found here: https://boosty.to/cyb_detective

I hope to send you another letter in 2-3 weeks.