Automation or Augmentation? Automation is an increasingly important part of OSINT. Even the simplest of investigations can require large amounts of different data types to be gathered and analysed quickly. Yet it is not accurate to suggest that all OSINT work is going to be automated as time progresses. Good OSINT practitioners will do […]
Crypto Scam Investigation: Using Spiderfoot HX For OSINT Automation Read More »
In my last Spiderfoot tutorial I wrote about how Spiderfoot HX could be used to gather information about a suspicious IP address and then analyse and visualise the data. In this guide I’m going to show how Spiderfoot HX can be used to investigate a domain linked to phishing. Despite a lot of high-profile
Spiderfoot HX: Investigating A Domain Used For Phishing Read More »
Using OSINT to identify and investigate sources of malicious internet activity is a key part of cyber security. There’s a huge range of open source information out there to help with this, and Spiderfoot HX gathers it very quickly. This allows more time to spend on analysis of the data to help assess the nature
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Edit: I recently discussed how to use Carbon14 during a recent SANS webcast on website investigations. Since I wrote this post a few years ago Python 2.7 has been deprecated. Carbon14 now works in Python 3 but will only work with Python 3.8 and lower, so you’ll need to have an environment with Python 3.8
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I’ve written a few blogs about gap analysis before, but it’s an important skill for investigation and intelligence analysis work so I decided to write about it again. Daily Quiztime challenges are a good platform to demonstrate how this kind of methodology can be applied, and it is just as suitable for small scale OSINT
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