OSIntOps News

2021-05-14 09:08:01 Week in OSINT #2019-49 - Sector35 - IPinfo.io

IPinfo.io has released their official command line utility, written in Go. The tool enables you to retrieve information on an IP address, or in bulk, and has loads of options for exporting the results to different formats including maps. Besides that, it also offers a 'grep' like tool to find IP addresses in any human readable file you throw at it. And with a free account, you can already retrieve info on 50.000 IP addresses per month!

Link: https://github.com/ipinfo/cli Open / Comment

2021-05-13 17:51:01 BELLINGCAT
It's been a year of growth for Bellingcat.

We've published 90 investigations, 10 guides, expanded our team and launched a new website. We've trained more than 600 external researchers and developed a 10-year strategy for further growth.

We couldn't have done it without the support of our donors and the interest of readers!

Today we're releasing our annual report for 2020. Read it here, and find out what's next for Bellingcat:
https://www.bellingcat.com/app/uploads/2021/05/Bellingcat-Annual-Report-2020.pdf Open / Comment

2021-05-13 12:11:01 https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/CIA-Under-Fire-As-Intelligence-Officers-Fall-Victim-To-Mysterious-Weapon.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true Open / Comment

2021-05-13 09:08:00 Week in OSINT #2019-49 - Sector35 - GoFindWho

Ginger T shared a site I've seen long time ago, but never really paid attention to back in the days. But the site has grown significantly and has lots of search options now that can be useful for investigations. By a simple click of a button you can search for locations, people, documents, you name it. Some work with custom Google searches, others by simply creating the correct query in a website for you.


Link: https://gofindwho.com/ Open / Comment

2021-05-12 19:18:01 Applied Disinformation Investigations with OSINT
The art of how social media is used to weaponise information
https://academy.osintcombine.com/p/applied-disinformation-with-osint Open / Comment

2021-05-12 09:08:00 Week in OSINT #2019-49 - Sector35 - Dark.fail Investigations

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, the founder of Njalla, explains what he's been able to find out in regards to the domain takeover of dark.fail. It clearly shows that 'typosquatting' is still hot. This time it wasn't used to lure people into filling in their personal information, but it was used to give credibility to a fake court order! Read this thread, and pay attention to how refined this scam was.

Maybe you heard that the domain https://t.co/3Ip8qhGgxd (@DarkDotFail ) got hijacked. Here's the story on how it happened. A thread! (I've pieced together the data I have so I might have some small errors in this thread, FYI.)
— Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (@brokep) May 3, 2021

Thread: https://twitter.com/brokep/status/1389314362561777665 Open / Comment

2021-05-11 19:18:00 Week in OSINT #2019-49 - Sector35 - Social Media Search

https://t.co/M8GulMSEw2 are developing an interesting-looking social media search: https://t.co/iuecQfSUos+
— Paul Myers (@PaulMyersBBC) December 6, 2020

A tweet was sent out this Sunday by Paul Myers about a search function by Mail.ru. This search engine makes it possible to find social media accounts of people. It looks very powerful, yet seems to favour people living in countries using the Cyrillic alphabet, but can absolutely be used for other western countries. Go check it out!

Link: https://go.mail.ru/search_social Open / Comment

2021-05-11 14:13:06 ClipDrop – an unexpected new OSINT tool? Open / Comment

2021-05-11 11:16:01 IPinfo.io

IPinfo.io has released their official command line utility, written in Go. The tool enables you to retrieve information on an IP address, or in bulk, and has loads of options for exporting the results to different formats including maps. Besides that, it also offers a 'grep' like tool to find IP addresses in any human readable file you throw at it. And with a free account, you can already retrieve info on 50.000 IP addresses per month!

Link: https://github.com/ipinfo/cli Open / Comment

2021-05-10 09:13:01 https://www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft/festnahme-in-berlin-wie-die-ermittler-dem-nsu-20-auf-die-spur-kamen,nsu-drohschreiber-gefasst-100.html?s=09

This is an amazing example of how #OSINT, forensic linguistics and the possibilities of LE to trace IPs come together. Open / Comment