The OSINT Newsletter - Issue #68
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👋 Welcome to the 68th issue of The OSINT Newsletter. This issue contains OSINT news, community posts, tactics, techniques, and tools to help you become a better investigator. Here’s an overview of what’s in this issue:
Transportation OSINT
Facial Recognition
Blockchain Investigations
Financial OSINT
AI Detection
Government OSINT
⚡ Advanced Search Methods Using urlscan.io
A case study on the use of urlscan.io for OSINT investigations including several methods for finding archived and hidden web pages.
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OSINT News
📰 How Planespotter and Other Transportation Enthusiast Sites Can Unlock Investigations
Valuable information can sometimes be found in the strangest places. This article talks about how planespotters and other enthusiasts contribute to hobbyist communities while also providing OSINT. It provides several resources for new information.
🎩 H/T: Rowan Philp
📰 Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI is back in the news again. This time instead of biometrical data it’s personal identifiable information like social security numbers and email addresses. For those in this industry, you know that the procurement of these types of datasets aren’t uncommon (think TLOxp, CLEAR, etc.). It’s the intent that counts and why this is an interesting read.
🎩 H/T: Freddy Martinez
📰 A Blockchain OSINT Case Study into a GMX Telegram Group
A lot of people left Twitter when it became X. When those people left, so did very good investigative content shared in threads. It’s nice to see this again in this investigation into suspicious blockchain activity.
🎩 H/T: ZachXBT
OSINT Tools
🔎 SEC Filings Text Analytics
Many investigators in the financial industry or adjacent read this newsletter. This one is for you. Use this tool to do research on SEC 10-K filings by keyword and date range.
🎩 H/T: Maxwell T
🔎 Hive AI Detector
I tried three different AI text detector browser extensions. I liked this one the best. It had the fewest bugs and the easiest onboarding process. Highlight text, right click, and check to see if it was generated by AI. Try it on this newsletter, it’ll say 0%. 😊
🎩 H/T: Hive AI
🔎 GovSky
For investigators monitoring the activity of governments, this is an interesting tool that aggregates all known BlueSky accounts for governments around the world. They even have a search tool
🎩 H/T: Nick Scialli
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