The OSINT Newsletter - Issue #63
The latest and greatest in OSINT news, tools, tactics, and techniques
👋 Welcome to the 63rd 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.
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⚡ Research into using Audio for OSINT (Geolocation)
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OSINT News
📰 Seeing More With Satellite Imagery Using Band Combinations, Ratios and Indices
This is a very technical guide on how multispectral satellite imaging works and its application for open source investigations. It’s another example of how a completely different industry with a unique skillset can have applications in open source intelligence.
🎩 H/T: Agnes Cameron
📰 A Free OSINT Lesson: Why RUMINT is the Unsung Hero of Intelligence Gathering
If you know me, you know that a week doesn’t go by without me acquiring some new RUMINT. Like MJ, I also agree that RUMINT is often completely false but sharing RUMINT can buy you friends and sources. Those sources can later become extremely valuable in your quest for knowledge. RUMINT → HUMINT is critical.
🎩 H/T: MJ Barnias
💡 Notepad.link a New Source for Leaked Data
Unless you have enterprise access, Pastebin hasn’t been a very reliable source for some time. Sites like Ghostbin and other paste sites have come and gone in relevance and yet another one has hit my radar, notepad.link. The main difference with this one is that the sitemap of the website contains every single post on the page and there’s native search functionality. If you’re in the world of stolen/leaked credentials (offensively or defensively), add this to your radar.
🎩 H/T: jav0
OSINT Tools
🔎 TGeocoder
This project uses an LLM to parse estimated locations from Telegram channels. I’ve tried this in other applications (massive RSS feeds → location keywords → LLM geolocation) with limited success. I like this this project uses a Jupyter Notebook for configuration.
🎩 H/T: Michael Cruickshank
🔎 Profile Image Intel
Profile Image Intel allows you to find out the upload dates of profile pictures across various social media platforms. If you’re not interested in digging under the hood at raw data that feeds a user interface, this is an interesting tool that does some of the heavy lifting for you. Unfortunately, I don’t think it has historic data about a profile.
🔎 StickTock
There’s been a lot of change with access and several privacy concerns when it comes to browsing or investigating TikTok. If you want to explore a URL of a TikTok post that was shared with you or one that you discover, consider StickTock. You can either upload the TikTok URL into the StickTock GUI or just replace “tiktok.com” with “sticktock.com” in any TikTok video. Think of Ceddit but for TikTok.
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⚡ A Deep Dive into Truth Social for Open Source Intelligence
Using a new tool I’m developing, I uncover many data-rich APIs containing useful data for OSINT on Truth Social.
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