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…
Tag: OSINT Tools
Website Attribution Without WhoIs – Reverse IP Lookups (Part 2)
In my last post on Reverse IP Lookups I wrote about the challenges OSINT investigators face when it comes to attributing a website to someone. Reverse IP lookups show which other domains are hosted at the same IP address, which…
Build Your Own Custom OSINT Machine – Part 5
The first four parts of this series of posts looked at how to build your own custom Buscador-style OSINT virtual machine. Part One showed how to install Ubuntu, Part Two looked at installing programs from the Ubuntu software, Part Three…
Build Your Own Custom OSINT Machine – part 4
The last post in this guide looked at how to install some useful OSINT programs for Linux directly from the internet. In this post I’ll show how to install some of the many popular Python-based OSINT tools that are available.…
Build Your Own Custom OSINT Machine – Part 3
This is the third part in a series of posts that show how you can make your own custom Linux OSINT virtual machine similar to Buscador. The first post showed to create a virtual machine with Virtualbox and Ubuntu Linux,…
Build Your Own Custom OSINT Machine – Part 2
In my last post I showed how it was possibly to create your own custom OSINT virtual machine based on Ubuntu Linux. The first post covered the basics of how to set up and install Ubuntu 19.04 with Virtual Box…
Build Your Own Custom OSINT Machine – DIY Buscador (Part 1)
Over the last few years I’ve moved from working entirely in a Windows environment, to trying Linux in a virtual machine (Kali and Buscador), before dual booting my PC (Windows 10 / Linux Mint) before finally ditching Windows completely and…
Two Useful Reverse Image Tools
Reverse image searches are an important part of any OSINT investigation. There are dozens of specialist search engines available, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, but checking an image against numerous separate search engines is time consuming. Frustratingly many…
Quiztime 24th May 2019 – Live OSINT gathering for the #ClimateStrike
Today’s Quiztime was run by Fiete Stegers once again. It posed a very different kind of OSINT challenge because it involved gathering information in live-time from very volatile sources. On one hand this meant it was possible to get a…
Finding Usernames With Sherlock
Identifying and tracing a person’s footprints across the internet usually involves researching usernames across a wide variety of different platforms. There are many tools available to do this, but I’m a big fan of Sherlock for conducting quick and…