The OSINT Newsletter - Issue #46
OSINT methods for proving missing persons are still alive
👋 Welcome to the 46th issue of The OSINT Newsletter. This issue contains OSINT news, community posts, tactics, techniques, and tools to help you become a better investigator. My goal with this newsletter is to help promote the OSINT industry, develop better investigators, and raise awareness of ethical use cases for open source intelligence.
🚨 The PDF of The OSINT Newsletter - Issue #1 (print) was released last week. Over 100 people downloaded the PDF and many have continued to share their print copies online. If you haven’t checked out the PDF version, here’s a link.
There are also a few copies of the print edition still available. If you prefer to see it in print, here’s a link for that.
🗒️ There is a delay in the infrastructure series due to unexpected events. I’ll be on a short spring break and the next OSINT newsletter will be published on March 25th.
🪃 If you missed the last newsletter, here’s a link to catch up.
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OSINT News
📰 Examples of recent attacks against my website
Matt experienced several attacks on his WordPress blog. He uses OSINT tools to help gather intelligence about his attackers. He shares those tools as he walks through this case study.
🎩 H/T: Maciej Makowski
📰 GEOINT: How to use Overpass Turbo for OSINT
This article was originally written in French but is easily translatable to English if that’s your preference. It steps through using Overpass Turbo for OSINT and how to overcome common pitfalls in the insane query language.
🎩 H/T: Predicta Lab
📰 GeoSpy Pro… coming soon
GeoSpy, a geoestimation tool, is creating a pro version. The demo video looks promising with several mapping interfaces and integrations with awesome tools like Google Street View.
🎩 H/T: Graylark
OSINT Community
📺 Top 10 FREE OSINT tools (with demos) for 2024 - And FREE OSINT course!
This video discusses 10 free OSINT tools with industry veterans. It also reminds you about their free My OSINT Training OSINT course for those looking to get started.
🎩 H/T: Micah Hoffman, Griffin Glynn, David Bombal
📺 Archetyp - Darknet Drugmarket Analysis
Sam Bent shares his insights again, this time with a deep dive analysis of the Archetyp Darknet Market. If you’re looking to get into CTI or haven’t yet dove into Archetyp, this video is a must-watch.
🎩 H/T: Sam Bent
🐦 Email to Device
OSINT Industries never rests. This time they released a module that allows you to turn a phone number into a device type as well as a timestamp for first seen and last seen.
This will be crucial for the next TraceLabs CTF.
🎩 H/T: OSINT Industries
OSINT Tools
🔎 Maltego transforms for investigative journalism
Reflets is building out Maltego transforms for investigative journalism. Currently, they have a transform for pappers.fr, a French resource for finding information about companies.
🎩 H/T: Sham-Han, Reflets
🔎 MUNDUS
Watch this demo of a prototype John is building that allows him to track the flight path of anomalies like the Chinese weather balloon and see all the military bases it came close to, including Whiteman AFB.
🗒️ This tool is not currently available and is a working prototype.
🎩 H/T: John Wiseman
🔎 Sherlock Eye
Sherlock is an email search tool that’s similar to haveibeenpwned with a few enhancements. The UI is very intuitive and well-designed and is a project worth watching.
🎩 H/T: UndeadSec
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