Wednesday Updates #11

Highlights: 8 blogs, 3 external reading, 4 videos, 1 podcast episodes, 1 Event update, 1 tool updates, 2 awesome tools and many more.

Hello, our dear reader, welcome to our weekly newsletter, “Wednesday Updates", a hub for all your new tools, tactics and techniques, and emerging trends in the OSINT world.

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Wednesday Updates #10

Today’s Newsletter includes -

• This Week in OSINT

• Blogs Reads

• External Reading

• Videos Worth Watching

• OSINT Podcasts

• OSINT Events & Challenges

• Tools Changelog

• OSINT Toolbox

• Mystery Box

• Missed Last week

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This Week in OSINT

• Registration for SANS OSINT Summit 2025 has started. It’s happening between Feb 24, and Mar 3. Click here to register.

• Nina Maelainine, An OSINT blogger on Medium shared a list of some cool spy thriller and Intelligence movies. Click here to know more.

• Peter Tyson, working for NZ Police shared his viewpoint on a very critical topic, The Labels that Blind Us.

• BellingCat is hiring for an Open Source Analyst on a part-time contract basis. Click here to know more.

  Blogs Reads

1. Mastering Email Enrichment for Effective OSINT Operations

2. Mastering Username Enrichment: Techniques for Advanced OSINT

3. AI images detection. A practical guide.

4. You want to geolocate an image? A guide on how to.

5. OSINT Methods for Image Investigations

6. Email Analysis in Uncovering the Truth Behind Data Breaches

7. All-Source & Artificial Intelligence Analysis

8. Mastering Reddit OSINT: The Ultimate Guide

External Reading

1. Chasing Shadows: Geolocate Images with Bellingcat's Shadow Finder Tool

2. Satellite Imagery Shows Vast Destruction in Rafah

3. Navigating the Cyber Threat Landscape: A Complete Guide to the CTI Lifecycle

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

Privacy Files podcast has released a new episode, THe Data Your Photos Leak where they discussed metadata and EXIF information in photos.

OSINT Events & Challenges

Registration for SANS OSINT Summit 2025 has started. It’s happening between Feb 24, and Mar 3. Click here to register.

Tools Changelog

@Usersearch_web released a new feature, Website 3rd Party Forensics, which is a game-changing feature for the industry. Want to know more? checkout UserSearch at usersearch.ai

OSINT Toolbox

1. Pentest GPT - AI assistant that can run different pentest tools.

2. Dork King - Enter your target domain and get quick links to find pages with SQL Errors, backup files, backdoors, open redirects, log files and more.

Thanks to

Cyb_detective

for helping in finding these tools.

Mystery Box

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Missed Last week

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