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2022-06-16 14:13:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 21 - sector035 - The Champs of Google Maps

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Blog: https://link.medium.com/y9mgBN5qqqb

Something light-hearted to close off today, an item by offtopicvideos about some cool Google Maps and geolocation things. Thanks for sharing Kris G! Open / Comment

2022-06-16 09:08:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 23 - sector035 - CCTV Locations
Link: https://cctv.masspirates.org/

On the TOCP Discord I saw a message by 'BroquePicker' about CCTV cameras. The website of the Pirate Party provides a map where about 160.000 private cameras, sometimes with open feeds, and other CCTV cameras that are mapped by OpenStreetMap are plotted on a map. Via this website you can easily search within an area of interest for cameras that might be interesting for an investigation. One interesting thing I found was that some cameras have a mapillary key. To view the camera within Mapillary, take that key and browse to the following URL to view that location on Mapillary:
https://mapillary.com/map/im/{key}
This is especially useful in areas where Google StreetView doesn't have much coverage, for instance in Germany. Open / Comment

2022-06-15 19:18:19 Dating Apps and Hook-up sites for investigators
https://start.me/p/VRxaj5/dating-apps-and-hook-up-sites-for-investigators

This my ongoing project to assist investigators and inquisitive minds in utilizing dating apps and sites in #OSINT investigations. When I'm not making guacamole or enjoying long walks on the beach, I do my best to answer your questions!
Emmanuelle Welch Open / Comment

2022-06-15 14:13:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 21 - sector035 - Basic OSINT Investigations

https://gralhix.wordpress.com/2022/05/15/how-to-do-a-small-osint-investigation/

Earlier this month Sofia Santos wrote an article on the basic steps of an OSINT investigation, by using military transport as an example. She doesn't focus so much on the collection of data, what a lot of new people in the field see as OSINT. But in this article she uses already collected data to answer some parts of the 5 W's and 1H (link). A good introduction for people that just start, and stop after the collection of data. Open / Comment

2022-06-15 09:08:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 23 - sector035 - Investigate Phishing Kits




I missed this video back in May, but this subject is right up my alley: Doing open source investigations on phishing kits. Alex Slotnick and Haley Copeland from DarkTower show how you can use sites like URLScan and urlquery to find phishing domains and research the information that's inside, or within the DNS records of a domain. An awesome video tutorial on how open source information can be used to track down possible cybercriminals. Open / Comment

2022-06-14 19:18:01 Deep Face Live
https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive

Real-time face swap for streaming and video calls
(use and set-up requires considerable effort as well as a lot of free time)

by Cyber_detective Open / Comment

2022-06-14 14:13:00 Week in OSINT #2022- 21 - sector035 - Exif Viewers

Since Jeffrey's Exif Viewer has been offline for some time, some people needed to go look for other solutions. On Twitter Kirby Plessas asked for some tips, and got some helpful replies, especially looking for solutions when you aren't able to install any local software, like Phil Harvey's ExifTool. Even tho it's probably the best local tool out there, there are some other possibilities.

Extensions and Add-ons

InVID/WeVerify: Chrome extension
EXIF Viewer Pro: Chrome extension
Exif Viewer: Firefox add-on

Online Solutions

Exifdata.com (Tip!)
CyberChef recipe (bit buggy, doesn't always work)
Forensically (use the 'Meta Data' option)

There are of course multiple extensions, add-ons or websites, but I simply can't add them all here. Do be weary that some browser extensions only show some basic information (like Exif Viewer Classic), unless you specify the exact fields you want to view.

A small word of warning, since I want to stress that you should always be careful using third party tools. Especially when you're trying to find metadata inside images, that may not be indexed by a search engine, or are somewhat sensitive. Because you don't know whether the other party saves them, or process them in some way you don't want to. In that case, I'd strongly recommend saving or emailing the images for later examination via a local tool. Open / Comment

2022-06-14 09:08:00 Maritime OSINT: Port Analysis
Why is port analysis important to us as OSINT Analysts? There is an increasing need for the overall surveillance and analysis of maritime ports due to the increase in global trade, smuggling of goods/people, COVID tracing and medicine transport, terrorism, and shipbuilding/breaking. The intention of this writeup is not to wax poetic about maritime tools, but rather to inspire some outside the box thinking and methodologies that may assist in your investigations.
https://wondersmithrae.medium.com/maritime-osint-port-analysis-d09b4531728d Open / Comment

2022-06-13 19:18:00 Website/domain investigation toolkit:
https://start.me/p/aL7OgX/osint-site

by Igor S. Bederov Open / Comment

2022-06-13 14:13:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 21 - sector035 - SOCMINT Scraping and Analysis
Meta OSINT
Link

Scott created an overview of over 4000 resources, tools, articles and blogs on open source intelligence. You can navigate by a nice interactive chart, or dive into the full list of sources grouped by categories. A huge list, with loads of resources, and an awesome job collecting it all. Thanks for sharing Scott! Open / Comment