Synopsis
Being OSINTcurious is just that; you have that urge to click on everything you find (except for malicious links and emails, of course!) and you want to investigate how a tool or script works and why it does what it does. It is the investigative curiosity that helps people be successful in OSINT.And youre not alone. We discovered that, having that curiosity helped us in our work. Because we wanted to share our curiosity with you and continue to build an online OSINT community, we founded osintcurio.us.So, here youll find interesting projects, events, blogs and ho
Episodes
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Ep 35: (Originally aired May 3) Guest Aliaume Leroy, a new Verification Handbook released, using birds to help geolocate and more....!
26/05/2020 Duration: 56minOriginally aired May 3, 2020 People in this Episode Micah Hoffman Dutch_OsintGuy Nico Technisette Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) Special Guest: Aliaume Leroy (@Yaolri) more info on: https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=aliaume+leroy Links to what we discussed https://www.aliseeks.com/search Good resource for recon when conducting IP infringement related work on seller that are active on AlieExpress https://twitter.com/datajournalism/status/1255106297592254465 The new verification handbook got released this week, lots of useful osint tips, tricks and case studies by industry experts https://twitter.com/BenDoBrown/status/1255547411201691651 Thread By Benjamin Strick about an ongoing campaign of Chines and Russian named Bots that are attacking a Chinese Businessman who has been critical of China’s response of Covid19 https://twitter.com/dutch_osintguy/status/1256163055215489026?s=20 How birds and where they live can help during osint investigati
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Ep 34: (Originally aired 19 April) Interview with the famous Arno Reuser, using UntappdScraper for checkin location data, and more
26/05/2020 Duration: 55minPeople in this Episode Micah Hoffman Nico (Dutch_OsintGuy) Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) Nixintel Kirby Plessas (kirbstr) Sector035 John TerBush (thegumshoo) Special Guest : Arno Reuser (@ArnoReuser) more info on ArnoReuser.com & http://bibliography.opensourceintelligence.biz/ Links to what we discussed https://intelx.io The site hosts breach data that are easily searchable (for free)! We spoke about this in regards to its scraping of Pastebin pastes. If you have a paid account, you can access them. https://untappd.osint.ninja This page is the webification of the UntappdScraper script Micah made. Makes it easy to analyze user-reported drinking behavior. https://twitter.com/MwOsint/status/1249416474600628226 Another source for company research is import/export data. Find out who does business with a company and which means of transportation they use. The tweet depicts one example for such a (paid) database, in some c
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Ep. 36: Interview with Jane Lytvynenko on disinfo, the "OSINT State of Mind", cropping images and facial recognition reverse searching and more!
26/05/2020 Duration: 01h09minOriginally aired May 17, 20202 People in this Episode Micah Hoffman Nixintel John TerBush Rae Baker Lorand Bodo Chris Kubecka Nico Dekens Special Guest: Jane Lytvynenko (@JaneLytv) more info on: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko Links to what we discussed https://twitter.com/SANSInstitute/status/1260219450449633281 webinar SANS @MIC with Dutch_Osintguy talking about the “OSINT State of Mind” https://twitter.com/msfrpy/status/1258467675065499650 Great tip by Musafir.py showing the importance of cropping sections of pictures to figure out a location using reverse image search https://twitter.com/ding0snax/status/1260648866551967744 Great resource with lots of search engines and other recourses for OSINT https://twitter.com/lorenzoromani/status/1260513489392721923 New blog post by Lorenzo Romani related to facial recognition on social media. Follow up of a previous post from Lorenzo ht
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Episode 33: We speak with guest Jan Tegze from sourcing.games, analytic thinking, beyond EXIF in photos, and more...
19/04/2020 Duration: 55minPeople in this Episode Nico (Dutch_Osintguy) Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) Nixintel Lorand Bodo (Lorandbodo) Rae Baker (wondersmith_rae) Technisette Special Guest : Jan Tegze (@jantegze) more info on sourcing.games Links to what we discussed Training yourself how to be an analytical thinker https://medium.com/@raebaker/training-yourself-to-be-an-analytical-thinker-476bdb7e7c99 Related to having an Analytical mind this shows analytical techniques in action through real cases https://study.sagepub.com/system/files/beebepherson2e_im_0.pdf Shows how EXIF data works, but also encourages people to keep digging into images even when EXIF data has been removed because it can still contain material of interest https://nixintel.info/osint/the-secret-life-of-jpegs/ 3 useful links for getting familiar with using api’s and python https://twitter.com/unknownuser1806/status/1244632977746718720?s=21 Alternative to Python? https://julialang.org/ Thread by Thomas from Pointer on fake news during covid (g
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Episode 32: Chris Poulter from OSINTCombine talks tools and debuts one during the webcast! Also: disinfo during the COVID-19 crisis and more...
04/04/2020 Duration: 01h03minPeople in this Episode: Micah Hoffman (WebBreacher) Nico (Dutch_Osintguy) Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) Nixintel Lorand Bodo (Lorandbodo) Rae Baker (wondersmith_rae) Kirby Plessas (kirbstr) Special guest: Chris Poulter (@osintcombine) and more info on https://www.osintcombine.com/ Links to what we discussed: OSINT Combine’s talk at the #sansosintsummit https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-summit/archives/file/summit-archive-1582052110.pdf Nixintel spots fake Twitter accounts blog https://nixintel.info/osint/signs-youre-following-a-fake-twitter-account/ DeepL is a topnotch translation tool, which is now offering support for Chinese and Japanese https://twitter.com/DeepLcom/status/1240548128731914240 Thread about group or video chat invites. Want to address this because during covid19 quarantaine we will see a lot of these links posted openly. This might pose a threat for businesses. ht
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Episode 31: Jeff Lomas of BleuBloodHound, MWOsint demos the MSFT video indexer and more...
09/03/2020 Duration: 01h08minPeople in this Episode: Micah Hoffman (WebBreacher) Dutch_Osintguy Matthias Wilson (MwOsint) Nixintel Sector035 Special Guest: Jeff Lomas (@BleuBloodHound) Links to what we discussed: Jeff Lomas talked about his blog on cell tower info, DFIR and OSINT https://osintcurio.us/2019/08/19/making-sense-of-osint-cell-tower-data-for-dfir/ People being monitored by the geotagged social media trough Echosec https://twitter.com/KarlSwannie/status/1233092121822978048 An semi automated website for lookups on a domain, ip or email. Covers dns, location, whois and more. Opsec! don’t know if requests are tracked https://synapsint.com/ OSINT CTF that gives people a chance to practice their skills. It covers a wide range of areas like government databases, social media, archived websites as well as some basic digital forensic and cyber security knowledge. https://ctf.cybersoc.wales/ Vis graphing tool for win, linux and osx in beta. Sort of Mal
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Episode 30, A brief chat about WhatsApp, a new OSINT-dedicated Linux build and more..
09/03/2020 Duration: 23minPeople in this Episode Ginsberg5150 Nixintel Sector035 Links to what we discussed WhatsApp invite debacle: https://twitter.com/JordanWildon/status/1230829082662842369 Nixintel his short blogpost about it: https://nixintel.info/osint/whatsapp-dorks-and-tricks/ Open source maps and satellite imagery used to verify claims about Chinese human rights abuses https://twitter.com/bayer_julia/status/1229441850781642754 A Pastebin bot on Twitter: https://twitter.com/leak_scavenger (by https://twitter.com/rnd_infosec_guy) SN Radar http://snradar.azurewebsites.net – geolocation tool for VK posts. OSINT Summit 2020 – https://www.sans.org/event/osint-summit-2020 New Buscador-style OSINT dedicated Linux build called CSI Linux: https://csilinux.com/features.html Sigint through satellites interference http://www.osinteditor.com/resources/sentinel-1-c-sar-interference-analysis-intro/ Citizens find the attackers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University attack: https://medium.com/dfrlab/citizen-sleuths-in-indi
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Episode 29: Interview with OSINTTechniques, Google dorking SSIDs, a look at the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash using OSINT and more
20/02/2020 Duration: 01h37sPeople in this Episode Micah Hoffman Dutch_Osintguy Sector035 And our special guest: Ritu Gill aka OsintTechniques Links to what we discussed Tweet by Gonzo about searching SSID’s with a Google dork https://twitter.com/gonzos_int/status/1222541952413065216?s=11 Another good name check lookup website https://twitter.com/dutch_osintguy/status/1223688324034060292 Good read about deanonymizing TOR circuits https://twitter.com/x0rzkov/status/1224380928094613505 Guest OSINT Curious blog by Jeff Lomas https://twitter.com/BleuBloodHound : https://osintcurio.us/2020/01/31/combing-through-video-faster-using-dfir-and-osint-skills/ 50 cognitive biases in the modern world https://twitter.com/i_intelligence/status/1224230855213830145 OSINT explanation of Kobe Bryant’s catastrophic helicopter crash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSHpbGhy3Ko&feature=youtu.be How to find the most recent satellite imagery on earth https://twitter.com/mouthofmorrison/status/1212840820019208192 Trace Labs Global CTF
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Episode 28: Bitcoin with Bellingcat's Brenna Smith, Finding who is running Wordpress even behind Cloudflare, and more
29/01/2020 Duration: 01h08minPeople in this Episode: Ginsberg5150 Dutch_Osintguy Sector035 Kirby Plessas And our special guest: Brenna Smith Links to what we discussed: Archive of Brenna’s CryptOSINT newsletters can be found here https://us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=c435f53a5568f7951404c8a38&id=7f8ca9c380 Our own technisette had a beautiful and healthy baby! Congratulations! https://twitter.com/technisette/status/1219631571851980801 Introduction to OSINT (video) Micah was very lucky to meet and get to work with the talented Ritu Gill, (@OSINTTechniques). At the recent Trace Labs (@TraceLabs) and SANS (@SANSDefense) Missing Persons CTF in Washington DC, they both noticed that many people wanted to participate but had no idea how to get started. After a few discussions, they decided to make an Introduction to OSINT video. https://osintcurio.us/2020/01/16/introduction-to-osint-video/ Lorand Bodo tweeted about a paper that describes a content manipulation (chameleon) attack https://twitter
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Episode 27 - OSINT Curious is a year old! And we have Vortimo's Roelof Temmingh!
17/01/2020 Duration: 01h02minWebcast 20200112 – #27 People in this Episode Dutch_Osintguy Ginsberg5150 Micah Hoffman Sector035 And our special guest: Roelof Temmingh (VortimoTech) Links to what we discussed Aware online blogs: Searching Telegram via location – https://www.aware-online.com/en/search-for-telegram-groups-based-on-location/ and creating your own flowcharts – https://www.aware-online.com/en/create-your-own-osint-flowcharts/ Micah’s OSINT MindMap – https://webbreacher.com/2018/07/12/osint-map/ OSINT : Using Certificate Transparency lists. https://twitter.com/catalyst256/status/1214590663037198336 Shodan filter reference: https://beta.shodan.io/search/filters Facial recognition by Yandex (vai Nelson Minar): https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/facial-recognition-for-the-public-yandex/ Are you wondering what Emergency Action Messages (EAM) over the US Military High Frequency Global Communications System (HF-GCS) are? Find out all you need to know at this blog from @MilcomMP – https://mt-milcom.blogs
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Episode 25 - Breaches, TikTok, Vortimo and more!
02/12/2019 Duration: 50minFind all linked material here: https://osintcurio.us/webcast-20191201-25/ People in this Episode Micah Dutch_Osintguy Kirby Sector035 Links to what we discussed Tips on how to interpret leak data https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/11/06/massive-white-supremacist-message-board-leak-how-to-access-and-interpret-the-data/ A new blog from MwOsint on investigating right wing extremists https://keyfindings.blog/2019/12/01/researching-right-wing-extremism-in-central-europe/ An Emmy for the Bellingcat documentary https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/11/two-dutch-documentaries-win-international-emmy-awards/ Firstdraft article on identifying bots https://firstdraftnews.org/latest/the-not-so-simple-science-of-social-media-bots/ Blogpost by OsintCombine on Foursquare https://www.osintcombine.com/post/foursquare-the-hidden-osint-gem Tutorial about Vortimo https://vortimo.wordpress.com/2019/11/08/vortimo-tutorial/ LawFare Podcast https://twitter.com/kirbstr/status/1198804496660385793 Di
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Episode 24 - TikTok investigation techniques, more on Instagram and the new IntelTechniques Book! And more!
10/11/2019 Duration: 57minPeople in this Episode: Ginsberg5150 Sector035 Technisette Micah Dutch_Osintguy Links to what we discussed New OSINT Curious logo! https://twitter.com/OsintCurious/status/1187624103231967232 Tiktok https://twitter.com/OsintCurious/status/1187624103231967232 https://twitter.com/sinwindie/status/1189364481085890562 https://twitter.com/IntelTechniques/status/1188493096499105792 Instagram https://twitter.com/Sector035/status/1187479840233885696 https://twitter.com/osintcombine/status/1187908145223352320 LinkedIn – https://www.osintcombine.com/post/corporate-profiling-advanced-linkedin-searching-more OSINT4Good – https://twitter.com/Europol/status/1187657027050528768 ISIS Attack map – https://twitter.com/TomaszRolbiecki/status/1188849963138191361 AirBnB Scam – https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb Michael Bazzell’s new book – https://inteltechniques.com/book1.html Firefox customization for OSINT – https://blogpirate.net/2019/10/31/how-to-mak
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Episode #23 - The talented Rae Baker, Cheatsheets and free tools galore!
23/10/2019 Duration: 55minPeople in this Episode: Kirby Micah Dutch_Osintguy Ginsberg5150 Sector035 And our special guest: Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae) Links to what we discussed: https://www.dfir.training/resources/downloads/cheatsheets-infographics https://www.duplichecker.com/free-tools.php https://webrobots.io/ https://viewdns.info/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50000234 https://www.torbox.ch/ https://twitter.com/evaristegal0is/status/1183639242951532544 https://twitter.com/OsintSupport/status/1183477689526697986 https://www.osintcombine.com/post/connecting-the-dots-social-engagement-clusters-on-facebook-instagram https://twitter.com/firstdraftnews/status/1183741960919629825 https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/10/15/a-beginners-guide-to-flight-tracking/ Shameless Self Promotion: https://www.patreon.com/osintcurious https://twitter.com/dutch_osintguy/status/1182551320668135424 https://www.sans.org/event/cyber-defense-initiative-2019/b
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Episode 22: Lorando Bodo talks OSINT for counter-terrorism, Extreme Privacy, OSINT for Maritime Intelligence and more!
08/10/2019 Duration: 01h16minPeople in this Episode: Micah Dutch_Osintguy Ginsberg5150 Kirby (voice only) And our special OSINT Curious member and guest : Lorand Bodo (@lorandbodo) Links to what we discussed: https://gijn.org/citizen-investigation-guide/ Micah – Reading Bazzell’s Extreme Privacy book. https://inteltechniques.com/book7.html OSINT Curious Instagram Search second blog post – https://osintcurio.us/2019/10/01/searching-instagram-part-2/ https://medium.com/@raebaker/osint-on-the-ocean-maritime-intelligence-gathering-techniques-2ee39e554fe1 https://twitter.com/dutch_osintguy/status/1177582383069061124?s=21 https://www.amazon.com/How-Disappear-Digital-Footprint-without-ebook/dp/B00MJD7AN6 Links from Lorand’s interview: Terrorism and Radicalisation Research Dashboard: https://start.me/p/OmExgb/terrorism-radicalisation-research-dashboard Tech Against Terrorism: https://techagainstterrorism.org https://Twitter.com/techvsterrorism (@techvsterrorism) Press release: Launching an updated version of Jihadology.n
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Episode 21: Live demo of mindmapping with Datascraper and Casefile and more...
30/09/2019 Duration: 54minWebcast 20190922 – #21 People in this Episode Micah Dutch_OsintGuy Links to things we discussed: Tetris Challenge gives insight in governmental gear Airbnb – Reverse OSINT with Your Public Information Youtube tests user profile cards that show users comment history Blog on OSINT and psychology and bias Twitter thread with step by step OSINT methodology on identifying a location with detained protesters in Xinjiang Live demo Dutch_OsintGuy & Micah Live demo shows how one can use Mindmapping software to keep track of your investigative steps and thoughts. Second part of the live demo shows how you can grab data with Instant Datascraper and visualize this data with Maltego Casefile. Live demo shows this software: Xmind mindmapping Instant Datascraper Maltego Casefile Self Promotion: Micah – SANS SEC487 trainings all over the world Dutch_OsintGuy – Infosecurity.nl conference 30 & 31 Oct
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Episode 20: Special guest Somdev Sangwan, Facebook dating, researching photos from a tweet, and more!
11/09/2019 Duration: 51minPeople in this Episode: Kirby DutchOSINTGuy Technisette (Voice only) Micah And our special guest: Somdev Sangwan (@s0md3v on Twitter) https://s0md3v.github.io/ https://github.com/s0md3v Links to things we discussed: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Python-Hard-Way-Introduction/dp/0134692888/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3QYDZ0CFODOKV&keywords=learn+python+3+the+hard+way&qid=1567967349&s=books&sprefix=learn+pytho%2Cstripbooks%2C282&sr=1-3 Book on how to learn Python 3 Prgramming https://www.truecaller.com/ Looking up Phone numbers https://www.applyzer.com/?mmenu=worldcharts Comparing populair apps Facebook dating…now with Secret Crush! – https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/09/facebook-dating/ Nico – Tip: Another great Chrome extension by @OsintSupport LinkedIn Email reverse Lookup osint.support/#linkedin Results of our OSINTCurious online survey? Trump tweeting Iran photo and then people doing research to find out what satellite it came from – https://twitter.com/N_Waters89/status/116
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Episode 19: Guest "InfosecSherpa", enumerating phone numbers, AI and social media and more...
01/09/2019 Duration: 01h16minPeople in this episode: Ginsberg5150 DutchOSINTGuy Sector035 (Voice only) Kirby (first half only) And our special guest: Tracy Maleeff (@InfoSecSherpa on Twitter) https://nuzzel.com/InfoSecSherpa https://medium.com/@InfoSecSherpa Links to things we discussed: https://www.martinvigo.com/email2phonenumber/ – a tool to enumerate possible phone numbers https://ilovaisk.forensic-architecture.org – how machine learning was used to sift through social media https://github.com/twintproject/twint – new version of Twint https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/ – finding fires from space https://darknetlive.com – darknet markets/forums etc – GONZO osint.team https://yippy.com – AI OSINT Cluster search engine https://sphere.tenebris.cc/index.html – a privacy aware browser https://osintcurio.us/2019/08/19/making-sense-of-osint-cell-tower-data-for-dfir/ Guest blog about Cell towers and how to map out the information https://osintcurio.us/2019/08/22/the-new-facebook-graph-search-part-1/ Faceboo
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Episode 18: Guest "OSINTEssentials", SXSWi, "How to Search" and more!
07/08/2019 Duration: 01h04minShow notes at https://osintcurio.us/webcast-2019072... People in this episode: - Ginsberg5150 - DutchOSINTGuy - Technisette (Voice only) - Sector035 (Voice only) - And our special guest: Osintessentials a.k.a Eoghan Sweeney Links to things we discussed: - We have a new Patreon https://www.patreon.com/osintcurious - We have applied to be a part of sxsw! Please visit https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/96637 and vote for us to do a live webcast recording at SXSW 2020! - Lorand’s Article https://osintcurio.us/2019/07/15/how-... - S0mdev made a great bitcoin visualisation tool https://github.com/s0md3v/Orbit - https://gofindwho.com/ osint resources - https://web.br.de/interaktiv/winnti/e... great article and step by step OSINT research article about a hacker group targeting German industry - More tools added to https://intelx.io/ among it a new CSE by Francesco Poldi - Instagram Explorer helps explore Instagram pages https://www.osintcombine.com/instagra... - https://skimagram.com/ instagram tool - Shoutout to t
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Episode 17: Special Edition interview with the Trace Labs team after completion of the Global CTF
22/07/2019 Duration: 50minWebcast no.17 recorded on 2019/07/21 People in this episode: Micah Hoffman (WebBreacher) Ginsberg5150 Sector035 (Voice only) Kirby Plessas Special Guests from Trace Labs Adrian Korn James Liolios Robert Sell Links to things we discussed: In this special episode of the OSINT Curious webcast we interviewed three people from the Trace Labs organization that conducts regional and global online, OSINT Capture The Flag (CTF) contests. Audience and Trace Labs member Rae wrote a blog post describing her experiences with the Global Online CTF: https://medium.com/@raebaker/finding-... The OSINT Curious Project has applied to do a live webcast at the SXSW conference in 2020. Stay tuned to our social media and web site so that you can help get us there! We just began a Patreon campaign (https://www.patreon.com/osintcurious) where you can help support our Project.
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Episode 16: news about Trace Labs CTF, reverse search for pixellated images, Intelx.io updates and CyberChef demo!
16/07/2019 Duration: 01h01minWebcast no.16 recorded on 2019/07/14 (We record live every other Sunday! Join us! Find the link at Osintcurio.us!) In episode 16 of the OSINTCurious webcast we discuss: People in this episode: Micah Hoffman (WebBreacher) Ginsberg5150 Sector035 (Voice only) Links to things we discussed: TraceLabs.org – Global online OSINT CTF The OSINT.Team site is back up (https://osint.team) with 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) and SSO (Single Sign On) using either a Twitter or a Github account. A Patreon account exists for donations to keep this resource going (patreon.com/user?u=21892179) @Y_vdw – Blog post on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram searching https://medium.com/@luga/finding-pict... @s0md3v is a regular attendee of the webcast. He posted about reverse web search for pixelated images – https://medium.com/@somdevsangwan/deb...