š Welcome to the 122nd 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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ā” OSINT Tool Tuesday: Waybien
ā” You Are the Leak: OSINT and Operational Security (OpSec)
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š° Claude Artifacts for Phishing
A researcher found fake Claude download pages hosted right on claude.ai (via user-generated artifacts) and promoted through paid Google Ads, so clicking ādownloadā and running the install command actually installs an infostealer, even though the domain and ad both look completely legit.
š© H/T: Mostafa Asaad
š° GitHub Hacker EXPOSED BY HIS CAT
John Hammond breaks down how OSINT and threat hunting were used to trace a single alias across platforms, credentials, and infrastructure to unmask the operator behind Team PCPās supply chain attacks.
š© H/T: John Hammond
š Vinosinted
Vinosinted is a Python OSINT tool that pulls public profile data from Vinted, the secondhand fashion marketplace, letting users run recon on a target account by just pointing the script at it.
š© H/T: osintarmenia
š EmailOSINT
EmailOSINT is a reverse email lookup tool that lets you plug in an email address and quickly pull back associated information, built for fast OSINT recon instead of manual digging.
š Osiris
OSIRIS is a real-time intelligence dashboard that plots aviation, maritime, CCTV, seismic, conflict zone, and crypto tracing data onto one GPU-accelerated map, plus a built-in recon toolkit for port scanning, DNS/WHOIS lookups, and sanctions checks, mostly running on free public data sources.
š© H/T: simplifaisoul
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ā” A Deep Dive into Vinted for OSINT
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Iāve been seeing nonstop ads about Vinted on streaming apps. Then, I saw the Vinosinted tool and decided to take another look. In this issue, Iāll do a deep dive into the Vinted platfrom from an OSINT perspective. Iāll start all the way in the login process and pivot to what is publicly facing.
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