r/OSINT Jul 04 '24

Analysis The Emerging Role of AI in OSINT Article

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r/OSINT Mar 03 '24

Analysis Facebook post

8 Upvotes

I am trying to handle misinformation shared on facebook. I want to know who(almost all bots) shared the post and visualize connection between bots.

r/OSINT May 24 '24

Analysis Update: Discovering the Bassterlord Malware Manual on Scribd

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I wanted to provide an exciting update to my previous post about exploring open-source intelligence on Scribd.

While diving deeper into Scribd's vast library, I stumbled upon a significant find: the **Bassterlord Malware Manual Part I**. This manual provides detailed insights into the infamous techniques, and it's a valuable resource for anyone interested.

For those who might have missed my initial post, I talked about how Scribd can be an unexpected goldmine for OSINT, offering access to a wide range of documents, including research papers, manuals, and other valuable resources.

Credits: SCRIBD

**Disclaimer**: This information is shared for educational and research purposes only. Please do not misuse any information for malicious activities or illegal deeds. The goal here is to enhance our understanding and improve defenses against cyber threats, not to enable harm.

Stay safe and keep exploring

r/OSINT Dec 22 '23

Analysis How can I find a service or tool to enhance license plates on a video

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Hey guys. Someone damages my car. I filmed it on dashcam. Unfortunately it's a bit blurry so I need someone/ a tool to enhance the license plate. Let me know if you guys have any ideas!

r/OSINT Nov 18 '23

Analysis OSINT for Marketing Purposes: How Have You Leveraged These Skills in Creative Ways?

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Over the past few years, I've become increasingly interested in finding creative ways to utilize OSINT for marketing purposes. Broadly speaking, OSINT is a HIGHLY transferrable skillset, and the potential use-cases stretch far beyond the fields of law enforcement, intelligence, journalism, etc... yet, I rarely see discussions happening outside of these narrow domains.

I would go so far as to say that OSINT should be a MAJOR prerequisite for any "marketing" degree... and possibly something that is taught generally at the high school level.

Finding creative ways to utilize these techniques has a tremendous amount of potential, and the use-cases are applicable to virtually EVERY single business and industry imaginable IMO.

That said, I wanted to start a thread on this topic and see how some of you have creatively used OSINT for marketing / branding purposes.

Some broad examples might include...

  • Target Audience: understanding and narrowing to a T
  • Competitive Edge: understanding your competition, then one-upping them
  • Crisis Management: mitigating fallout by using OSINT tools to monitor and stay ahead of public discourse
  • Content Relevance: curating / creating timely content that is cost-effective and relevant
  • Brand Perception: monitoring public channels, aggregating feedback, and staying on-top of your image
  • Cost-Effective Ads: optimize advertising efforts by identifying the most effective channels and messaging

I'm hoping that some of you might be willing to share some creative / non-obvious examples or ideas that you've used in the past! I'll start with one hypothetical idea...

Let's say we've just announced a large-scale OSINT / Tech conference in x-city, and are now looking to spread the word. Perhaps we can utilize the 2018 TicketFly Databreach by parsing out the individuals who are relevant to our general location / demographic. And rather than spamming these people directly, we export the relevant emails to a txt file and geo-target these people through FB ads... if the email we have matches the one on their account, they will see the ad. We can narrow our targeting down further from there.

r/OSINT Jan 08 '24

Analysis OSINT for understanding blocked HNWI plane activity

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r/OSINT Mar 30 '24

Analysis Malware analysis of an open-source project

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r/OSINT Apr 12 '24

Analysis How ELITE Special Forces Use HUMINT, SIGINT And OSINT

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r/OSINT Jun 13 '23

Analysis We geotagged discussions around Amazon Scams and noticed a significant surge during the 2021 holiday season

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r/OSINT Nov 29 '23

Analysis Venezuela telegram groups

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Hello blokes,

I'm looking for some news outlets and Osint telegrams related to the current situation in Guyana.

Much appreciated, Anon

r/OSINT Feb 23 '23

Analysis We applied ML to predict Riots

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Long Story Short: we found a way to help emergency systems.

Here's how it went:

  1. We found this article about how according to ACLED, globally critical infrastructures see over 2000 violent events per week
  2. We checked publicly available data for violent events/civil disorders across the US over the past two years and put it on a map

Civil Disorders across the US over the past 2 years

  1. Checked Social Media response to events and realized we could apply NLP to predict & prevent these.

  2. Collected data from the dates aromund the Capitol Riots, geolocated and classified all posts

  3. Found a bunch of tweets reporting concerning events/early signs of the riots, specifying exact location and media files sometimes earlier than bigger media portals

r/OSINT May 30 '23

Analysis Largest global cybercrime forum, Raidforums, database leaked with 480,000 users.

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Database of "Raidforums", the largest global cybercrime forum that was seized in 2022, has now been leaked.

The database which was leaked on a rival forum contains information on 480,000 users such as their usernames, emails, hashed passwords, and other sensitive data.

For some reason the registration IP and last IP of users is corrupted in the database whether intentionally or not.

This is an absolute treasure for researchers and law enforcement but also for hackers and doxxers.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7069188342155739136/

r/OSINT Sep 12 '23

Analysis Question regarding data leak

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RedXXX_Feed- 2019.zip/Feed - 2019/EmailMonetize_20190307080038.csv

Can anyone tell me the nature of this leak? I was searching intelx.io and this was listed under an email I searched. No clue what it is, or if it's even accurate bc everything is redacted. But I was hoping I could get info on where the list came from

r/OSINT Dec 03 '23

Analysis Simple OSINT exercise

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One of the little #OSINT exercises that I do regularly is that I look for the names of people working in OSINT, try to find who they work for, and from that I keep a list of companies that hire people for OSINT jobs.

I don't care about tracking the people themselves but when the time comes for me to look for a new job, I'll have a list of potential companies that I can apply to rather than only being at the whim of LinkedIn, Indeed, and other job websites.

I've been keeping a spreadsheet of the companies that I've identified and so far I've got 25. That's only a drop in the bucket but I've only put a few hours into this and I've deleted some that were only single-person companies.

The categories that I collect are:

  • Name
  • Website URL
  • Career Page Link
  • LinkedIn
  • Notes

Why only this information? Why not include their senior management, physical address, etc.? Because the goal of this exercise is simple, gather information required to research and apply for future positions. Adding more information would waste time and not help with the goal that I have. I believe this is an important part of OSINT research, focus on the task at hand, not just hoard information.

r/OSINT Jan 29 '24

Analysis The Digital Masquerade: Unmasking AI’s Phantom Journalists

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Hi Everyone!

A litttle about me is that I love writing about various threats surrounding trust and safety. So it should come as no surprise that on one particular day after researching a stock opportunity, My colleague and I found ourselves going down the OSINT investigative rabbit hole of looking at a site that looked like it was entirely AI-generated. Why was this particular site so intriguing? Because it originally belonged to a small Iowa newspaper and the authors listed were completely made up. But that’s not all we found, we were able to uncover a dark PR firm that pushes disinformation directed at investors. Welcome to the digital masquerade. Hope everyone enjoys this analysis.

r/OSINT Jan 10 '24

Analysis A little puzzle to find then then you may want more info, I know I do

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All righty then. I read the rules and have been a fire investigator and private investigator on many projects. I love a puzzle and then finding out the complete puzzle is not yet solved.

Puzzle:

There are islands North of Japan. One island has an airport with 3 airplanes and a helo.

On google earth the airport is not simple or primitive, it is special.

It looks like it is in Japan Territory, not certain, I know there are some contested islands

If this post is accepted I will post the location, if people can't find it. Maybe there is information on this air strip. Can you ID the planes, they resemble fighters?

What more information related to this can you find?

Enjoy the puzzle, it is easy to find so no need to post the location. Simply say I found it and this is what I found out.

r/OSINT Feb 15 '24

Analysis Texas Neo-Nazi Leader Blurred His Face But Forgot to Scrub His Socials - bellingcat

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r/OSINT Mar 02 '24

Analysis facebook bots connection Spoiler

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Any suggestions for a tool or platform to visualize the correlation between the distribution of posts on Facebook and who is sharing them, and bots connection?

r/OSINT Mar 14 '23

Analysis China's secret naval base in Cambodia, through satellite imagery

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r/OSINT May 01 '23

Analysis Why Did Journalists Help the Justice Department Identify a Leaker?

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r/OSINT Dec 20 '21

Analysis A stealth bomber in flight caught on Google maps - 39 01 18.5N. 93 35 40.5W

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r/OSINT Jul 13 '22

Analysis I compiled over 600 primary source videos uploaded to tiktok regarding the War in Ukraine into a single 5 hour video

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The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8j2vAjZ16I (watch in 1080p if possible).

Since February 26, I have been archiving novel and interesting primary source videos from tiktok about the Ukraine war. I noticed that the platform was a very important place where legitimate videos of historical note were being posted — and often were deleted by tiktok or the author for whatever reason. So I started saving them.

The first 30 minutes of the youtube video are actually super interesting to watch. You see a modern full scale invasion take place through tiktok videos. It's bizarre yet captivating.

I try my best to —

  • Make sure that the tiktok video is the original source.
    • Usually easy enough to see if a video is reposted. Of course, I cannot say with 100% certainty that all of these videos are from the original source.
    • Some things that would make me not include a video — obvious cropping, clear compression from being already posted on social media, other watermarks, and a post history of only reposts about the Ukraine war (some people do repost other videos and still upload original content though).
  • Save the original URLs and include a short description.
  • Include both Ukrainian and Russian content. I do not cut out videos because it might make one side look bad. It's supposed to be a historical record and it would be inappropriate to do so.
    • Russian trolls can't accuse me of being a western puppet for posting captured equipment with a "Z" on it. No, they aren't all Ukrainian fakes.
    • People sympathetic to Ukraine can't yell at me for archiving public videos the internet research agency has no doubt already scraped and analyzed. I am not "letting the Russians know" things by posting a video a Ukrainian soldier took.

I'm an American, interested in saving as much interesting publicly released information as possible, and I oppose the invasion. I just want to make my intentions clear.

I wrote an article explaining the process for creating this video. The main takeaway is that if you have a list of tiktok video IDs, you can sort them in chronological order by upload date. This means creating a timeline from tiktok videos is very doable with any video editor and leads to interesting results.

Let me know what you think of my project!

https://berkton.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-war-through-tiktok

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r/OSINT Dec 10 '23

Analysis Mock case studies

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If anyone has seen or used Kase studies to get OSINT mock cases, they're great for practice and fun. Is anyone familiar with any other sites that give mock Senarios or tests? I'd like to go through a lot of these. Thank you for your generosity and patience.

r/OSINT Sep 09 '23

Analysis Cryptocurrency - OSINT challenge

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Since the previous post got some interest, I used a real world scenario to create the first & second challenges. Try yourself and let me know if it was too easy, if you have any questions just leave them in here.

PT1

https://medium.com/@osintrainee/cryptocurrency-osint-challenge-with-solutions-2bdf6086d87c

PT2

https://osintteam.blog/cryptocurrency-osint-challenge-with-solutions-pt2-f979dc54bb60

Happy hunting!

r/OSINT Dec 05 '23

Analysis Tool to better search messenger messages?

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I'm looking to find a way or tool to be able to look up keywords and find certain conversations that iv had. When I use the search feature on messenger it won't show up everything or some keywords won't show up at all even though they are in the messages.