The OSINT Newsletter - Issue #67
The latest and greatest in OSINT news, tools, tactics, and techniques
👋 Welcome to the 67th issue of The OSINT Newsletter. This issue contains OSINT news, community posts, tactics, techniques, and tools to help you become a better investigator. Thanks for reading and I hope you subscribe.
This issue includes the following:
New tools for investigating the Dark Web
Improving your OPSEC with Bellingcat
Unorthodox methods for OSINT collection
A new OSINT multi-tool
New methods for investigating social media
Let’s get started. ⬇️
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⚡ Transform a Phone Number or Email Address into Vehicle Information
OSINT News
📰 Sam Bent launches DarkwebDaily to help navigate the Dark Web
If you’ve used dark[.]fail in the past, DarkwebDaily is essentially an extended version of that. Sam writes about his reason for creating it on LinkedIn.
“The darknet is full of dead links, phishing scams, and misinformation. Finding real, verified onion sites shouldn’t be a gamble.”
🎩 H/T: Sam Bent
📰 Digital Safety - How to protect your online identity
The internet is full of trackers trying to sell you ads. It’s also full of adversaries trying to steal your information. OPSEC is essential when conducting online investigations that potentially put your device in arms way. Bellingcat shares some tips and tricks to stay safe online.
🎩 H/T: Bellingcat
📰 A Free OSINT Lesson: Search Indexes, Record Shops, and Flipping through Vinyl
MJ Banias writes an allegory about record shops and search engines, putting a bit more of a personal touch on the “use multiple search engines” story. This also applies to generative AI.
🎩 H/T: MJ Banias
OSINT Tools
🔎 ClatScope
ClatScope is an OSINT multi-tool that does geolocation, DNS, WHOIS, phone numbers, emails, usernames, personal info, password strength checks, data breach details, and a whole lot more.
🎩 H/T: Joshua M Clatney
🔎 Masto Maltego Transform
Masto is a great OSINT tool for username searches across Mastodon and other federated instances. Now, it’s a Maltego transform. It’s also a great intro into creating your own Maltego transforms.
🎩 H/T: OSINT Tactical
🔎 LinkdTime
LinkdTime is a timeline generator for LinkedIn content. It can pull the precise date and time of a specific post, comment, or activity, or create a timeline based on a collection of posts, comments, or activities.
🎩 H/T: Luca Garofalo
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