👋 Welcome to the 106th issue of The OSINT Newsletter. This issue contains OSINT news, community posts, tactics, techniques, and tools to help you become a better investigator. My goal with this newsletter is to help promote the OSINT industry, develop better investigators, and raise awareness of ethical use cases for open source intelligence
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⚡ OSINT and the Dark Web: Part Two
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📰 What happens when agentic AI meets intelligence analysis?
Agentic AI, Maltego MCP servers, conflict monitoring, and self-hosted intel platforms are opening up new possibilities for OSINT, but the tools only matter if the analyst knows how to turn information into intelligence.
🎩 H/T: Aaron Roberts
📰 Vibe Coding Is Becoming an OSINT Risk
AI is making it easier to build and adopt OSINT tools, but the real risk starts when investigators trust software they do not fully understand to shape analysis, workflows, and operational decisions.
🎩 H/T: Niko Dekens
📰 Turn Off ChatGPT’s New Ad Tracking
ChatGPT’s free tier is now opt-in to ad tracking and data sharing by default, linking user activity to marketing systems unless you actively turn it off in settings.
Read on Tate’s Online Safety Community…
🎩 H/T: Tate Jarrow
🔎 BamQam
A new OSINT-style dashboard that aggregates live geopolitical and military data into a map-based intelligence feed, with unclear provenance and trust level.
🔎 DrishX
A satellite-powered freight intelligence tool that uses open-source orbital imagery to detect and analyze logistics movement patterns like vehicle flow for OSINT-style monitoring and trend analysis.
🎩 H/T: Sairaj Balaji
🔎 claude-osint
An OSINT automation framework built on Claude that structures investigative workflows for research and intelligence tasks.
🎩 H/T: Sachin Sharma
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⚡ Creating Claude Skills for Open Source Intelligence
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Claude Skills allow you to automate a significant portion of your workflow using very specific instructions. In this issue, I’m going to show you how you can fully automate a username search, including pivoting to additional methods based on findings, all with a single request from Claude.
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