The OSINT Newsletter - Issue #98
Collecting Information from Local Sources in an OSINT Investigation
👋 Welcome to the 98th 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.
🪃 If you missed the last newsletter, here’s a link to catch up.
⚡ Return to Sender: OSINT With IP Addresses
Let’s get started. ⬇️
OSINT News
📰 Exploring a Secret Underground OSINT Marketplace
This issue of The OSINT Insider is a treasure trove of useful information for OSINT practitioners covering topics from new OSINT tools and datasets.
🎩 H/T: The OSINT Insider
📰 I Built an OSINT Agent Skill to Expose Your Digital Tattoo
OPSEC isn’t just about what you post online, it’s about what happens to the content after you post. This issue of The Secure Circuit covers an OSINT tool that helps you cover your tracks and also find the tracks of others.
🎩 H/T: David Kyazze
📰 AI for OSINT Investigations: Turning Data Chaos into Intelligence
It’s 2026, AI is here and you’re going to use it whether you want to or not. Generic AI tools like GPT and Gemini may not be great for OSINT; however, AI within OSINT tools is a different story.
🎩 H/T: Project OSINT
OSINT Tools
🔎 Dark Light Viewer
Compare nighttime light levels across any location on Earth, across any period from one month to ten years.
🎩 H/T: Benjamin Strick
🔎 Twitter Viewer
View a Twitter (X) profile without having to log in. See posts and media without leaving a footprint.
🔎 GeoSentinel
Track global movement in real team; from maritime to aviation. Review in geospatial tooling.
🎩 H/T: H9
Description
Scenario
A potential IP address associated with a French threat actor has been identified. Further investigation is required to determine the ISP name and the cities linked to this IP address in order to support attribution and ongoing analysis.
Challenge Objective
Your task as an OSINT analyst is to find :
The cities linked to this IP (in alphabetical order).
The ISP name.
🏁 New CTF Challenge Live - Trace The IP
A new CTF challenge has been posted on our CTF website. This week’s challenge focuses on identifying the ISP name and the cities associated with a specific IP address using only open source intelligence techniques.
Start competing in our Capture the Flag (CTF)
🪃 If you missed the last CTF, here’s a link to catch up.
Last week’s CTF challenge featured a challenge titled “The Wi-Fi Password”. Participants needed to identify the the password of a suspicious Wi-Fi using only open source intelligence tools and techniques.
Solution:
Searching for : epstein property Florida on google brings us to the wikipedia page where the address is displayed
Looking at the address we notice that it’s in Palm Beach
Using 🔎 p3Wifi Free WiFi map - p3wifi and searching for the Palm Beach area we notice a weird Wi-Fi named SteinStein with the password visible in clear, located in front of a store named LaMuse which is exactly 0.7 miles and 3 minutes away from Epstein’s property when checking it on google maps with itinerary search.
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⚡ Collecting Information from Local Sources in an OSINT Investigation
The internet reacts to where you are in the world. You can trick the internet into thinking you’re somewhere else. Once you do that, your entire browsing experience changes. I discuss this, local news aggregation, and mining “Popular times” from Google Maps in this issue of The OSINT Newsletter.
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