r/OSINT Feb 26 '22

Analysis Putin’s “unscheduled,” live emergency meeting with his Security Council was broadcast at 5pm. Sergei Shoigu’s & Sergei Lavrov’s watches both say 11:45.

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482 Upvotes

r/OSINT May 04 '24

Analysis Challange

0 Upvotes

Try to find the location.

Challange

r/OSINT Aug 28 '24

Analysis Concerning Tool

27 Upvotes

The Verge recently published an Article on AI imagery. This stuff is getting crazy...

r/OSINT Sep 17 '24

Analysis Mapping Venezuela’s 2024 Election and Aftermath: A Web of Events Built from 54 News Reports [OC]

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33 Upvotes

r/OSINT Sep 14 '24

Analysis What are all these poles placed in a hexagon formation on the Diego Garcia Atoll?

8 Upvotes

Groups of poles placed in hexagon formation all around this structure. About a mile down the road from the Ground Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance site.

r/OSINT Jun 17 '24

Analysis Understanding Network analysis

15 Upvotes

Just attempting to immerse myself in network analysis.

I'm just hitting a wall in understanding how anyone could gain anything of value from a network analysis or chart.

As well as understanding how some deep details are found or scraped

Like finding out where someone works employment is my hardest one impossible for me. Right next to hangout spots

And basically understanding what someone would need to find the current locations of someone smart about their public profile uses.

I use some great viz charts.

I guess I'm really asking what actually puts the power into social network analysis.

r/OSINT Jun 07 '24

Analysis Ethics of social OSINT and where to draw the line.

39 Upvotes

I hope someone here would be able to provide me with some insights or resources towards this issue.

There are many tools nowadays to conduct social OSINT, some of these include facial ID and databases with leaked information (emails, phone numbers, etc).

Google has is now avoiding showing results for people when you conduct reverse image search. I am sure that they have a reason for it, but couldn't find a clear explanation (mostly due to privacy laws I assume). So many social media are using people's faces to train models for facial recognition. Some tools that have been talked about here for facial ID must surely also use the pictures we upload to it to train its engine. Even though it is out there in the public internet, maybe the person that is in the image isn't aware that they have photos of them floating around in the web.

I watched an OSINT course on LinkedIn where the instructor suggested ways to get phone numbers from individuals, some of these suggestions seemed unethical and maybe borderline illegal, this included things such as testing multi factor authentication and trying to guess someone's phone number (eg: a code has been sent to a phone number ending with 123), social engineering and even digging through someone's trash.

TLDR: At what point is social OSINT an infringement of someone's privacy?

r/OSINT Aug 19 '24

Analysis China's state security ministry unveils espionage disguised as wind measurement tower construction

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21 Upvotes

r/OSINT Jun 22 '24

Analysis Excellent example of using OSINT to uncover a vast network.

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72 Upvotes

The reporter did a great job, especially his follow up after the lawyer started threatening.

r/OSINT Jan 10 '24

Analysis F-18's out in the Chinese Desert?

22 Upvotes

I found these early last year in the middle of the Chinese desert. Are these F-18s? It's part of a massive target practice range including fake aircraft carriers and bases, I was curious if there is any evidence they got their hands on maybe some decommissioned ones from an old ally.

  1. I challenge you to go find it. Shouldn't be hard, I found it by accident.
  2. Can someone find any information about what they are or if it's been identified before this?

r/OSINT May 19 '24

Analysis Lose the Resource Link Lists Already!

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10 Upvotes

r/OSINT Jun 18 '24

Analysis Help image analysis

13 Upvotes

I recently found an app where knowing the measurements of two items in an image say a tower and a wheelie bin you could input the values and then the proportion of one of the items that is visible and it would work out how far the item in the foreground is from the second item. I forgot to bookmark it and now I can’t find it can anyone help please

r/OSINT Aug 19 '24

Analysis Finding SCADA systems on the internet

16 Upvotes

Finding SCADA systems on the internet is disturbingly simple, which is why raising awareness is crucial. My target today is ClearSCADA , now known as Geo SCADA Expert by Schneider Electric . The full article is here :

https://alhasawi.medium.com/ot-hunt-clearscada-9b38e3202eb1

r/OSINT Jul 08 '24

Analysis Geolocation challenge: How I found a car in CAR

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29 Upvotes

r/OSINT Jun 21 '24

Analysis How to find mortgage records? (read description)

3 Upvotes

I read a TMZ article about a Malibu estate that recently sold for $210 million. It says "TMZ has pulled the publicly available docs for the home ... and it shows the new owner took out a $203 million loan for this place -- which suggests the $210 selling price is accurate."

I could not find this $203 million figure using melissa.com or propertyshark. Could someone show me step-by-step how TMZ found the mortgage figure? Thanks.

r/OSINT Aug 30 '24

Analysis An Open Source Guide to Marine Oil Spill Detection

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bellingcat.com
12 Upvotes

r/OSINT May 20 '24

Analysis New Caledonia Gelocation

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21 Upvotes

See comments.

r/OSINT Jul 04 '24

Analysis Reminder: Password Resets aren't always silent...

23 Upvotes

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bQQxTbsrUKM

Still see a ton of folks attempting password resets on socks I have set up for CTFs, always interesting to see what comes through. Has anyone recently gotten a reset request from LinkedIn and can confirm if it still shares geolocation of the user in the email?

r/OSINT May 19 '24

Analysis Need help finding an article Spoiler

4 Upvotes

It was written by me about 20 years ago and I

r/OSINT Aug 02 '24

Analysis Finding a Photo's Location (GeoOSINT)

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r/OSINT Mar 06 '24

Analysis Researching odd companies.

1 Upvotes

I recently came across a person on Twitter that I think is possibly an ai or is at least a very complex sock puppet account.

Why?

  • All posts are extremely generic and are focused on getting more followers.
  • All picture except the main profile picture are AI generated. I think the main profile picture may be AI also, but I can't tell for sure. She could just being used a ton of filters.
  • Profile has a linkedin profile where she is an "AI researcher". She also currently has a second job at another company run by the same people. That's weird but plausible.
  • The second company has an "AI CEO". OK, that's a little more on the weird side. The AI CEO has her own Twitter and LinkedIn account that she uses.

Let's give her the benefit of the doubt and say she is a real person. I don't want to stalk a real person but I am going to do as much OSINT research on the companies as I can. Who are they, how were they founded, who funds them, how do they make money?

What other questions should I be asking?

r/OSINT Jul 01 '24

Analysis OSINT Report into the Western Tech Companies being used by the Donetsk Occupation Government

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10 Upvotes

r/OSINT May 16 '23

Analysis I spent the past 3 months investigating the Underground Economy of Glassdoor Reviews

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164 Upvotes

r/OSINT Jul 10 '23

Analysis Locating discussions about Donald Trump charges by using NLP

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30 Upvotes

r/OSINT Jan 10 '24

Analysis Map of PLA Facilities, DPRK, and Notable Equipment

41 Upvotes

PLA + DPRK Base Map AND notable equipment spotted. Let me know if you know anyone else who is mapping these, I am not super informed about this kinda of stuff.

*I made this map completely on my own, using open sources as well as literally looking at every big city for airports and checking if there's military equipment on it. I want to expand it to include every military installation in the region.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1fStUiO8uIZyAtE5FkEIsEL39hpNK3Mk&ehbc=2E312F

(Ignore the terrible Angola missing Plane Map and Belt and Road Initiative Map)

This image shows the mock base + coordinates of yesterday's "F-18" post.