Wednesday Updates #31

Deepseek review, new free tool by OSINT Industries, Ghunt got an upgrade, lots of awesome blogs, new podcast episodes and more.

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Today’s Newsletter includes -

• This Week in OSINT

• Content Sharing

• 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

Content Sharing

• Reza
  published an awesome post, OSINT Methods for Image Investigations.

• Henk van Ess
  published an awesome post, DeepSeek: The Real Price of China's AI.

• Conspirador Norteño
  published a post, Selling followers where the skies are blue.

• Soxoj
  published 2024 OSINT Recap: Center of Excellence in Social Links.

Blogs Reads

1. Faking It: Deepfake Porn Site’s Link to Tech Companies

2. The Rise of Nitazenes: Chinese Suppliers Behind Ads for Deadly Opioids Targeting Europe

3. Beyond the Hash: Investigating the People Behind Web3 Wallets.

4. Uncovering Corporate Secrets with OSINT

5. The Darknet an Unconventional Source of CAI

External Reading

1. How I Did It: Extracting and Analyzing National Budget Data Using a Custom AI Bot

2. How ‘Underestimated’ Journalists Exposed the Massive UK Post Office Scandal

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

• Smashing Security Podcast released a new episode, 401: Hacks on the high seas, and how your home can be stolen under your nose.

• James Intelligence Podcast released a new episode, Likelihood of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

OSINT Events & Challenges

No new events or challenges this week. But there is another surprise in the end.

Tools Changelog

• @OSINTindustries launched Palette, a cutting-edge OSINT visualization tool to reveal connections effortlessly. It supports searching via phone number, email, username, name, location, etc. Signup for early access.

• GHunt by @mxrchreborn just got an upgrade, it now has a new module named spiderdal, which Finds assets using Digital Assets Links.

OSINT Toolbox

• noimosiny - A new phone number and email OSINT tool.

• OSoMe Mastodon Search - It checks for keywords, accounts and hashtags across a huge number of Mastodon servers and instances.

• GoSearch - OSINT tool for searching people's digital footprint and leaked passwords across various social networks, written in Go.

• GpxExpeditor 3D Sattelite View - Worldwide map with 3D and high quality satellite images. For street views from 3-20 metres it is much better than Google Maps.

• KakaoMaps - One of the most detailed street panorama services is Kakao Maps. It shows even the narrowest forest paths. (Only for South Korea)

• Hippie OSINT Toolkit - An OSINT toolkit providing informations on techniques and simple tools packaged in a nice responsive UI.

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Cyb_detective

Mystery Box

Here’s a good list of some awesome dark web monitoring tools compiled by our friend, Ervin Zubic in his latest blog titled, Top 15 Dark Web Monitoring Tools: Insights, Pros, and Cons.

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