Weekly Updates #5

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

• Learn how to Find the exact date and time a Google Maps review was posted. Read full post.

• Benjamin Strick
  started his own newsletter on substack,
  OSINT Field Notes - from Benjamin Strick
  .

Read, Watch & Listen

• Read Uncovering Schemes Worth Billions: Inside the Belarusian Investigative Center

• Read The tequila heist that exposed supply chain fraud – and the fake companies behind it

• Read The role of technology and gathering ‘OSINT’ in preparation for the safe policing of special events

• Read OSINT in Civil Law: Shifting from Prosecution to Compensation

• Read Australian OSINT Symposium Capture-the-Flag Walkthrough Part I

• Watch Learn OSINT! by John Hammond.

• Watch OSINT At Home #27 – How to Track Wars, Disasters & Ships at Night

• Listen to What is GEOINT in OSINT? | E92 by NeedleStack

• Listen to EP 164: Oak Cliff Swipers by Darknet Diaries

Newsletter Spotlight

• Benjamin Strick
  published, OSINT Field Notes #1.

• GIJN
  published, How ProPublica Exposed a Flawed AI Tool ‘Munching’ Hundreds of Veteran Contracts.

OSINT Toolbox

1. NASA Worldview - an alternative to Google Earth, provides the capability to interactively browse over 1000 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and then download the underlying data.

2. Xplore - A tool for generating Twitter search queries to find tweets in a specific location (like BirdHunt).

Mystery Box

Tips and Tools for Uncovering Online Scams, a Free webinar by GIJN on Oct 28, 2025 06:30 PM in India. Register here.

WhenTaken - An online game that tests not only geolocation skills, but also chronolocation skills. You have to guess not only the place where the photo was taken, but also the year.

Awesome AI OSINT - A list of articles, videos, and tools related to the use of AI for OSINT.

The Oceans Investigations Guide by GIJN.

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