Wednesday Updates #34

New blogs, articles, events, podcast and lots of new OSINT stuff.

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Today’s Newsletter includes -

• 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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Content Sharing

Mike Reilley

published a post on NotebookLM Basics.

Blogs Reads

1. Russia Bypassing Sanctions: the Chimmed-Rusmedtorg Scheme

2. How I Located a German House That’s No Longer There

3. DrugHub: How not to operate a Dark Net Marketplace

4. BroncoCTF2025 — OSINT Confidential Information Writeup

5. Tor Browser on Steroids | Venator Red Edition Review

6. Military OSINT: How to Track NATO Warships in Real Time

7. Social media as an investigative tool: OSINT strategies for law enforcement

External Reading

1. Too Good to Be True? Understanding the Risks of Free OSINT Tools

2. How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

3. Nearly a Year Later, Mozilla is Still Promoting OneRep

4. The USAID Crisis and Funding the Future of Independent Media

5. OSINT in 2025: The Changing Landscape of Social Media and Technology

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

• James Intelligence Podcast released a new episode, Unraveling the North Korean Enigma - part one.

• StageTalk with BellingCat released a new episode, Funding Open Source Research with Mareike Vitt.

OSINT Events & Challenges

OSINT UK: Unplugged Newcastle is going to happen on March 6 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Book your tickets.

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Tools Changelog

@OSINTindustries now allows search golf apps by name & email to uncover linked accounts. They now allows searching via Name.

OSINT Toolbox

Interactive Map of London - This interactive map from the UK government website provides a detailed view of London, allowing users to toggle various categories and access locations of skate parks, pubs, tube stations, bus stops, transport routes, and lots more. Tip by @OSINT_Community.

MAPFLOW - Detect and analyze objects (roads, forest, buildings) in satellite imagery in large scale.

YouTube Word Searcher - Very quick and simple Chrome extension to search keywords in YouTube videos. (We haven’t tested this, so use at your own risk.)

Oil and Gas Flaring Worldwide Interactive Map - Based on Global Gas Flaring Observed from Space (VIIRS) data.

WEBMII People search engine - By full name, searches for profiles in various social networks and professional communities (and immediately displays profile pictures with description).

Linkdtime - Extract timestamps from Linkedin posts/comments links and convert to date and time.

Onion Search Engine - Search engine for sites in the .onion domain zone. Works without Tor browser.

Credit for this section goes to

Cyb_detective

.

Mystery Box

Are you a veteran in Ukraine? Here’s how you can get access to a free OSINT course to monitor government and budgets. (We don’t have any relation to the providers, so take course at your own risk.) Click here to know more.

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