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2022-04-23 14:13:14 de digger
https://www.dedigger.com/about.html
de digger is a search/discovery engine that allows you to find public files on Google Drive. Open / Comment

2022-04-23 09:08:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 15 - sector035 - Webmii

https://webmii.com/
@Bashinho_Bash was wondering what people search engines worked best in the EU, and got told that Webmii is one of them. Looking at what it does under water, it seems to be a Google CSE and after a few searches it doesn't retrieve any information for me anymore, due to 'suspicious traffic'. If anyone has better website, do reach out to him and let him know, or share it over at The OSINT Curious Project Discord server! Open / Comment

2022-04-22 19:18:00 Week in OSINT #2022- 15 - sector035 - Blockchain Detectives
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgd9zw/meet-the-blockchain-detectives-who-track-cryptos-hackers-and-scammers
When I saw the presentation by Michael James on Web3.0, I realized this was still uncharted territory for me. When reading this VICE article, I found out he isn't the only one diving into this. The article talks about how people investigate crypto hackers and scams out there. An interesting read, with some good examples of scams that have been out there. Open / Comment

2022-04-22 14:13:00 Tools for understanding other people's code
https://github.com/cipher387/code-understanding-tools
While working on various tasks in #osint (Open Source Intelligence), sometimes there is a need to quickly understand someone else's code.

For example, when investigating a person's public profile on Github or Bitbucket.

Also, the need to understand other people's code may arise when one wants to modify some of the #opensoure tools for #osint to suit one's needs.

Here is a small selection of online tools to help you do that.

Most of them are free.

You can read a summary of how to work with the different classes of tools in my Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/cyb_detective/status/1508167717928546312 Open / Comment

2022-04-21 14:13:14 Twitter hashtags analysis (election in Poland)
To gather data and make analysis I used following tools, including: Twint, NiFi, Spark, Neo4j, neovis.js, Zeppelin (with highcharts).
Above data and quite superficial analysis show interesting dependents as well as emerge accounts standing out in various terms. In following steps you can extend a data set by different hashtags and check if any significant changes appear. Most likely in case of Szymon Hołownia, we could win more interesting results as it seems that at least equally strongly he uses other hashtags as #ZoltaRewolucja or #EkipaSzymona, but then a data set would have to be strongly extended for other candidates. Examining tweets sentiment or grouping them with used words, would be interesting for sure. Finally, the accounts may be checked by Machine Learning model trained for bots detection. There are lots of possibilities Anytime soon I will be posting similar analysys with a use of mentioned mechanisms.
https://blog.datahunters.ai/2020/07/twitter-hashtags-analysis-election-in-poland/ ( Open / Comment

2022-04-20 14:13:14 Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site
They thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity.
https://www.wired.com/story/tracers-in-the-dark-welcome-to-video-crypto-anonymity-myth/ Open / Comment

2022-04-19 14:13:14 9 Best Maltego Alternatives Graph Intelligence Platform
https://technicalustad.com/maltego-alternatives/
With all the technological advancements in networking and communication, it has become easier to analyze and retrieve data from open sources.

Data gathering and representation keep utmost importance in intelligence investigations. However, arranging and representing data gives us headaches at times.

Thankfully, there are web-based platforms that offer sourcing of data along with its graphical representation. These web-based platforms also help us to relate the data and reach a conclusion. However, not all the platforms are genuine, and only a few apps or websites provide genuine services.

One such advanced and the trusted platform is the Maltego; it is regarded as one of the most impressive open-source data analyzing and forensics platforms on the internet. The platform provides reliable data gathering and representation techniques to the users in exchange for some service charge.

Maltego charges a massive sum of money for a single data transformation, due to which most investigators and people do not prefer using it. Thankfully, many other websites offer the same service as Maltego at comparatively low prices.

Here in this article, we have compiled the list of best Maltego alternatives for your convenience. Give the article a read and choose the website that suits your needs the best. Open / Comment

2022-04-18 14:13:14 Scrapping telegram channels with python
In this short tutorial, I want to show how to access telegram using Telethon python library. We will use Python 3.9 to achieve it. First, we will connect to a channel and get all the messages from there.
https://blog.datahunters.ai/2021/11/scrapping-telegram-channels-with-python/ Open / Comment

2022-04-18 14:13:14 Use of NiFi for OSINT automation purposes (part II)
This is the second article that focuses on using NiFi to automate OSINT activities. This time, we get straight to the practical part. If you haven’t read the first part of this tutorial, you can find it here.
https://blog.datahunters.ai/2021/09/use-of-nifi-for-osint-automation-purposes-part-ii/ Open / Comment

2022-04-18 09:08:09 Week in OSINT #2022- 14 - sector035 - On the Topic of Tools

One last thing about the use of tools before I close off... Because we all know that Zewen is right! Open / Comment