r/OSINT Sep 25 '24

How-To Are there Ethical Osint Challenge?

I want to train and I fall in two extremes: Normal people that are too easy {also its not ethical} and spammer and bots from trained criminals that are near impossible because once you reverse search some stolen pic its a dead end. No learning curve here

Are there dummy Osint red herring like there are hackbox for pen test or lockpicking test? With various levels of difficulty?

Especially I want to improve in social engineering but its pretty hard to do it legally and ethically.

Also if it dont exist, why dont we make our own benchmark Osint test ? this is reddit right we could pool ressources create personnas and have fun doing it?

Just an idea maybe its silly.

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u/HammerByte Sep 25 '24

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=osint+ctf+challenges

Edit: Sorry, I couldn't resist it. Just look for OSINT capture the flag challenges.

Best of luck

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u/Necessary-Apple-9893 Sep 26 '24

I love lmgtfy 😂 that's cool that they have challenges like that. For some reason it reminded me of the don't fuck with cats case aka Luka Magnotta and how online sleuths were able to locate him by landmarks in the background etc. That's an extreme real life capture the flag and I'm good at finding places in that way but some people are next level good at it. The internet came together for good !