The OSINT Newsletter - Issue #54
The latest and greatest in OSINT news, tools, tactics, and techniques
👋 Welcome to the 54th 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.
🚨 There will be no OSINT Tool Tuesday this week. I’ll pick things back up next week. In the meantime, check out OSINT Resources for Usernames page updates.
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OSINT News
📰 Video Investigation: The New Methods of Drug Traffickers in France
This investigation unveils a drug trafficking network's attempt to smuggle cocaine into France via the port of Le Havre, exposing their sophisticated methods and eventual downfall due to errors, utilizing leaked documents from the Colombian Attorney General's Office and open-source research.
🎩 H/T: Liselotte Mas, Marceau Bretonnier, Simon Piel, Thomas Saintourens, Sinead McCausland
📰 Leveling Up Your OSINT Game: Creating a Professional Email on a Budget
Matt writes about using Zoho Mail to create a free, professional email. This can be useful for sock puppet accounts and accessing content requiring a business email.
🎩 H/T: Matt Edmonson
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📰 FRAVIA: The Art of Searching
Soxoj wrote a PDF called Fravia, named after a lesser-known but impactful security researcher, that outlines several advanced techniques and methodologies for searching the internet.
🎩 H/T: Dmitry Danilov (Soxoj)
📰 Jump Over Firewall Finding Origin IP
Mantas writes about several techniques and tools you can use to find the ‘real’ IP address behind Cloudflare.
H/T: Mantas Sabeckis
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🔎 OSINT Timeline
OSINT Timeline compiles OSINT tools, services, and research, offering a helpful weekly newsletter and a structured list of the developer's favorite OSINT-related GitHub repositories.
🎩 H/T: Maxim Marshak
🔎 Google ReCaptcha Bypass
The "GoogleRecaptchaBypass" repository on GitHub offers a Python-based solution for solving Google reCAPTCHA in less than five seconds by utilizing audio captchas, which are easier to solve programmatically than image captchas.
🎩 H/T: Sarper AVCI
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