Wednesday Updates #37

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Welcome to our free weekly newsletter, “Wednesday Updates, " your weekly dose of OSINT Updates every Wednesday. I know today’s not wednesday, we have kept the same as we haven’t finalized a new name for our upcoming series.

Today’s Newsletter includes -

• Content Sharing

• Blogs Reads

• External Reading

• Videos Worth Watching

• OSINT Podcasts

• OSINT Events & Challenges

• OSINT Toolbox

• Mystery Box

Content Sharing

• Henk van Ess
  published, How AI bots quietly dismantle paywalls via web search

• Bullsh*t Hunting
  published a new post, A Free OSINT Lesson: The "Velvet Sundown" Squatter Who Duped the News Media.

Blogs Reads

1. You’re Not an OSINT Analyst, You’re an AI Prompt Monkey (And it Should Terrify You)

2. Dive into the shadows of an Iranian cybersecurity organization

3. UK Arrests Four in ‘Scattered Spider’ Ransom Group

External Reading

1. 8 Most Common Cybersecurity Mistakes Journalists Should Avoid

2. Briefing: Grok goes on a Nazi bender and YouTube hints it will go after AI slop

3. Masked, Armed and Forceful: Finding Patterns in Los Angeles Immigration Raids

4. Boiler Room Investment Frauds: Evolution, Detection, and Prevention

5. The Unfair Standard: Why We Expect AI to Be Perfect When We’re Not

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

• Authentic8 published a new podcast episode, An OSINT investigator’s toolkit.

• James Intelligence released two episodes, AI for automated OSINT reconnaissance - part one and AI for automated OSINT reconnaissance - part two.

• Stage Talks with BellingCat also realesed a new episode, Investigating cold cases with Peter Barth.

• OSINTCombine released a new podcast episode, The Craft of Responsibility - Journalism and OSINT.

OSINT Events & Challenges

Osama Shilbayeh created three TryHackMe challenges focused on OSINT, with difficulty levels for beginners, intermediate, and advanced users. Give them a try.
OSINT Level 1
OSINT Level 2
OSINT Level 3

OSINT Toolbox

• ODCrawler - Open directory search engine, Search videos, audio, images, archives and more.

• IDCrawl - Search social media profiles by username.

• The Time Machine 3.0 - Weaponizing WaybackUrls for Recon, BugBounties , OSINT, Sensitive Endpoints and what not.

• VormWeb - Search engine for .onion domains. Not too many indexed sites, but there are Darkglossary definition hints.

Quick Note -

Hi everyone, this is Dheeraj. As most of you know, i am publishing wednesday after almost 4months. I have been busy in some other projects which includes OSINTCon and Profiler.me (a new product by us, still under development). Apart from that, their have been a few reasons due to which i wasn’t able to give time in the newsletter. But from now onwards, their will be regular posts in the newlsetter including weekly updates with lots of new updates and improvements. I am open for any suggestion and feedback for improving this newsletter. so, feel free to reach out to me at @dheerajydv19 at linkedin/telegram. Thank you for being part of this journey.

Mystery Box

OSINT Tools Bangladesh - A collection of OSINT sources and public data tools specific to Bangladesh, following the paulpogoda/OSINT-for-countries-V2.0 template.

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