Weekly Updates #3

Lots of new amazing content to keep you updated about OSINT.

Welcome to the third edition of Weekly Updates, your weekly summary of what happened in OSINT this week.

This week’s issue includes...
🔍✨ This Week in OSINT
📖Read. 🎬Watch. 🎙️Listen. To…
📰✨ Newsletter Spotlight
🛠️✨ OSINT Toolbox
🎁🔍 Mystery Box

OSINTCon 2.0, organised by OSINT Ambition in partnership with TOVEK, is back on popular demand. This time we have more amazing speakers, more amazing talks and some surprises too. The conference will be on 1st and 2nd November 2025, 10 AM to 8 PM GMT with a break in between. Claim your VIP pass now at https://osintconference.com/
(Call for Speaker is also open now, apply on the website.)

This Week in OSINT

• GitHub started deleting certain repositories containing data about the dark web, hacking, OSINT, etc. So, as a safety precaution, make a copy of your info on GitLab. Many OSINTers, like Scully,

  Cyb_detective
  have already shifted to GitLab.

• We just launched an OSINT Forum where OSINTers can freely share their ideas, opinions and discuss without worrying about their privacy and security. Join us now at forum.osintambition.org. Be the first one to post. (Feel free to give suggestions for making it better.)

• UK OSINT Community organized a webinar on Information Laundromat: Tracking Misinformation and Disinformation Online. Watch the recording now.

Read, Watch & Listen

• Read Stop Calling It OSINT

• Read Updated Test of 24 LLMs for Geolocation

• Read Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content

• Read Can Flipper Zero really steal your car? (Spoiler: NO)

• Read Why AI Agreeableness Poses Risks to OSINT Work

• Read What is in the Jeffrey Epstein Files, and can OSINT Reveal the Answer?

• Read OSINT in Insurance: Evolving From Tools to Frameworks

• Read GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work

• Read The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft

• Read A Guide To Monitoring Conflict Amidst a Sea of Misinformation

• Watch OSINT and Public Speaking with Mishaal Khan.

• Watch The Internet's Most Asked OSINT Questions

• Listen E89 | Adding Agentic AI to analysis by NeedleStack

• Listen OSINT and the changing character of warfare by James Intelligence.

• Listen Building Tools for Research with Galen Reich by StageTalks with Bellingcat.

Newsletter Spotlight

• Henk van Ess
  Published: Exposing AI Manipulation in Fast Fashion.

• Bullsh*t Hunting
  Published: A Free OSINT Lesson: Being a Defense Attorney is Hard.

• Jeremy Caplan
  Published: A Journalist's Toolkit for the AI Era.

OSINT Toolbox

• Meawfy - Search and discover files from Mega.nz with our intelligent crawler technology. Access over 9 million indexed files instantly.

• Flightera - Free historical flight data from 2017. Search by arrival and departure airports, time, and date.

• Social Search CSE - Google Custom Search engine for searching in 17 different social media: Facebook, OK, VK, Linkedin, Telegram, TenChat and others.

• Awesome Search Queries - Large list (30K+ lines) of search queries for searching servers with various vulnerabilities or installed software(For Google, Shodan, FOFA).

• Facebook Catalogue - A free online tool for finding the most popular and active pages on Facebook in different countries and topics. Useful for news monitoring and other tasks.

• First YouTube Comment Finder - The first comments on posts and videos are often left by the author's close friends. Therefore, finding them can be useful for investigations on all social networks.

• Copyright Public Records System Search - A large database of all records on registered copyrights in the USA🇺🇸. Useful for gathering information about a person or company.

  (Credit for this section goes to

  Cyb_detective
  )

Mystery Box

Read this five-part series on OSINT fundamentals by @sinwindie -

1. The OSINT Intelligence Cycle Part 1: Planning and Direction

2. OSINT & The Intelligence Cycle Part II: Lets Talk About Collection

3. OSINT & The Intelligence Cycle Part III: Processing Raw Intelligence

4. OSINT & The Intelligence Cycle Part IV: Analysis and Production

5. OSINT & The Intelligence Cycle Part Five: Dissemination

Read this excellent guide by GIJN, Guide to Investigating Social Media Algorithms.

Read this other excellent guide by

Tate Jarrow

, The Chrome Privacy Checklist: 6 Settings You Need to Change Right Now.

Thanks for reading our newsletter. Please feel free to provide feedback and suggestions for this new version. You can contact me at @dheerajydv19 on Twitter, LinkedIn and Telegram.