The OSINT Newsletter - Issue #48
The latest and greatest in tools, tactics, and techniques for open source intelligence
👋 Welcome to the 48th 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.
🚨 This is a free issue of The OSINT Newsletter. Paid content will continue next week. I’ll be rolling out OSINT Tool Tuesday for paid subscribers and continuing to write the monthly issue for free subscribers.
🪃 If you missed the last newsletter, here’s a link to catch up.
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OSINT News
📰 #4 (2024) New OSINT tools cheat sheets and website updates
Cyber Detective has put together a series of ‘cheat sheets’ for various OSINT topics. They aggregate all the lists in this Substack post.
Read on Cyber Detective’s Substack…
🎩 H/T: Cyber Detective
📰 The Open Source Film Awards
The Centre for Information Resilience is hosting the first CIR Open Source Film Awards at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, highlighting films that use open-source investigative techniques and contribute to understanding conflicts, exposing human rights abuses, or challenging established narratives.
Read on Centre for Information Resilience…
🎩 H/T: Benjamin Strick
📰 Week in OSINT #2024-11
Sector035 provides a brief update on open-source intelligence (OSINT), reviewing the documentary "Idaho Murders: Trial by TikTok," discussing a podcast episode featuring Justin Seitz, and highlighting changes in Google's privacy settings.
🎩 H/T: Sector035
📺 This is the best OSINT framework
Gary discusses the evolution of OSINT since The OSINT Framework and a few alternate options for beginners.
🎩 H/T: Gary Ruddell
📰 No, Your Tree is Poisonous
Some Lawyer discusses the potential of open-source intelligence (OSINT) in legal investigations, emphasizing the value of gathering information beyond formal discovery processes to uncover critical insights and challenge established narratives, with examples illustrating the practical application of OSINT in legal contexts.
OSINT Tools
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🔎 AI Regex
This tool is an AI-powered regex generator. Just describe what you want regex for and it’ll create a pattern. You can do this with GPT yourself but this saves you the prompt and it’s free.
🔎 OSINT Tracker
If you’ve ever used Maltego for investigations, give OSINT Tracker a try. It comes with useful investigative tools out of the box.
🔎 Awesome OSINT For Everything
This is yet another mega-list of OSINT resources for various topics. This one is comprehensive and modern, including AI tools.
✅ That’s all for this issue of The OSINT Newsletter. Thanks for reading and supporting this publication with a paid subscription.
💡 Remember OSINT != tools. Tools help you plan and collect data but the result of that tool is not OSINT. You must analyze, verify, receive feedback, refine, and produce a final, actionable product of value before it can be called intelligence.