👋 Welcome to the 81st 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 this issue:
OSINT is growing up
Investigating Internet Archive
US deportation data
Making JSON explorable
OSINT multi-tool
Bookmarks galore
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OSINT News
📰 A Raw Take on OSINT’s Broken State - Time for Real Change
Because open source intelligence is one of the first and few intelligence disciplines available to the private sector, there aren’t many standards or best practices passed down from an authority. Coalition Cyber frames digital forensics as the closest, relevant model to mirror as OSINT grows.
🎩 H/T: Paul Wright & Neal Ysart
📰 OSINT At Home #26: Top 5 hacks to find deleted websites, posts and secret changes
Follow along with Ben as he shows you different ways to view or recover content removed online, with a primary focus on the Internet Archive. A beginner-friendly video on different methods to utilize this incredibly powerful tool.
🎩 H/T: Benjamin Strick
📰 New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes ICE Arrest Data Accessible to More People
If you’re in the United States or doing investigations in that region, you’ve noted the significance of immigration policy in the national news cycle. A toolset from the Deportation Data Project aids investigators in discovering relevant data regardless of use case.
🎩 H/T: Austin Kocher
OSINT Tools
🔎 JSON Crack
If you work in OSINT, you’ve come across JSON dumps. Whether it’s leaked data, company information, or really anything you interact with an API, JSON is there. Getting a sense of what information you’re working with can be challenging. JSON Crack helps visualize this data in a more readable format, increasing your efficiency when handling large or new datasets.
🎩 H/T: Aykut Saraç
🔎 Cold Relation
Cold Relation is a collection of tools that help solve several use cases. From social media analysis both on primarily English-speaking platforms to primarily Chinese-speaking platforms and everything in between, if you’re looking to add some redundancy to your toolkit, give this tool a try.
🎩 H/T: Adam Kohut
🔎 NSCO Start.me Collection
This isn’t just one Start.me bookmark list, it’s a collection of them. There are too many to list so I’ll just add an image instead.
The one that pulled me in was the Dark web | Breach Data page but Nordic Countries is also interesting as a specific callout.
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⚡ Integrating LLMs into the Intelligence Cycle
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