Spiderfoot is one of my favourite OSINT gathering tools. It automates a huge number of queries that would take a long time to do manually. It comes with a wide range of modules that will conduct automated searches for e-mail addresses, IP addresses, domains, phone numbers, usernames, and other types of data. This post will […]
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One of the most enjoyable things about the Twitter OSINT community is that someone somewhere will always be aware of a resource or tool that you’d never heard of before. I came across three new resources this week to do with mapping and geolocation investigations that look as though they could be very useful. Here’s
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Capturing and preserving media content is an essential part of most OSINT investigations. There are a number of tools available to do this, but my favourite my far is YouTube-dl. Despite it’s name, YouTube-dl is capable of grabbing videos quickly from a range of different websites including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LiveLeak, and many others. It’s
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I came across a new Instragram scraping tool InstagramOSINT after DutchOsintGuy and Hwosint pointed it out on Twitter. I’ve stopped using InstaLooter since it kept causing dependency issues, and I started using InstaScraper as a photo grabbing tool. InstagramOSINT is more than a photo-scraping tool. It’s very new but it gets additional information via the
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Everyone who does OSINT is usually reliant on Facebook’s graph search tool for researching their subjects. Great sites like Whopostedwhat, Stalkscan, and Plessas Matrix are essential resources for allowing researchers to see what information is publicly available on Facebook about a particular person, place, or institution. The graph search’s most useful purpose for OSINT was
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