Weekly Updates #4

Sponsor Spotlight: Tovek Artemis Auditor – Premiering at OSINTCon!

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

✨✨ Sponsor Spotlight: Tovek Artemis Auditor – Premiering at OSINTCon! ✨✨

Artemis Auditor is a desktop application built for OSINT analysts, investigators, and journalists who need to make sense of large volumes of unstructured data. Whether it’s Office documents, PDFs, TXT files, or even entire email mailboxes, Auditor transforms them into a fully searchable, offline knowledge base — keeping your sensitive data 100% private.

✨ Key Highlights:

• AI-powered entity extraction: Instantly identify names, organizations, emails, IBANs & more.

• Advanced search & queries: Run powerful lookups across all your indexed data.

• Link visualization: Automatically map relationships or manually build your own connections, similar to i2 Analyst’s Notebook.

🔎 Perfect for:

• Analyzing leak dumps (PSTs, CSVs, PDFs)

• Researching persons and companies in depth

• Building your own private data intelligence hub

🎁 Exclusive for OSINTCon attendees:

• Free Freemium version (time-unlimited)

• Special “Founders” discount for the first 50 registrants

• Invitation to a webinar series on advanced techniques

👉 Sign up now: forms.tovek.cz

With 30+ years of experience providing analytical tools to law enforcement, military, and intelligence agencies, Tovek is now opening its powerful technology to the OSINT community. Don’t miss this chance to be among the first to try Artemis Auditor!

This Week in OSINT

• SANS annoucned OSINT Summit 2026. See Details.

• View recording of Sayari Masterclass: Shining a Light on Shadow Fleets

Read, Watch & Listen

• Read 8 Tips to Improve Your Reverse Image Search Results

• Read Step-by-Step OSINT Roadmap for Investigating Videos

• Read Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions

• Read The essential handbook for AI detection: seven strategies to identify digital fakes

• Read 5 Years of Running an OSINT Business… What’s it Like?

• Read Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms

• Read Australian Cocaine Pilot Killed in Brazil Plane Crash Linked to Kinahan Drug Cartel

• Read Incendiary Munitions Strike Gaza-bound Flotilla Two Nights in a Row

• Read Like Clockwork: An Orange Wall Exposes Yet Another Active Club ‘Fight Night’

• Read OSINT: The Internet of Bodies — A Target Centric Approach

• Read The Role of OSINT in Disaster Response and Recovery

• Watch Exploring the Dark Web

• Watch OSINT At Home #26: Top 5 hacks to find deleted websites, posts and secret changes

• Watch How to make beautiful OSINT map graphics

• Watch Fact-Check & OSINT Review #11

• Watch How to Archive the Web - Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver Tool

• Listen “Tracking Suspicious Ships” with Christian Panton by StageTalks with Bellingcat.

• Listen E91 | Ransomware’s collateral damage by NeedleStack

Newsletter Spotlight

Secrets of Privacy

published Why We Trust Famous Faces.

Tate Jarrow

published Safari’s Secret Weapon: Unlock Its Built In Advanced Privacy Settings.

Henk van Ess

published The essential handbook for AI detection: seven strategies to identify digital fakes.

OSINT Toolbox

1. Councilon - Perform a Real People Check with a Councilon People Search Engine and get detailed information about anyone in the United States. Councilon analyzes hundreds of millions of people-related data in the U.S.

2. Kwold - Try looking for a partner, a family friend, a famous person, yourself, or somebody else you might know.

3. Vericora - find in-depth and up-to-date info on just about every adult in the U.S.

Credit goes to

Cyb_detective

and Dennis Keefe

Mystery Box

OSINT Handbook - An index of OSINT tools and resources curated by the team at i-Intelligence GmbH.

Legendary OSINT by K2OSINT - Github repo with with hundreds of #osint tools in different categories: people search, aviation, reverse image search, dark web etc

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