👋 Welcome to the 116th 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 Tool Tuesday: Leaker
⚡ Reply Guys & Power Users: OSINT on Forums and Online Communities
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📰 Another 96,477 “private” chats went public
Nearly 100,000 people thought they were sharing private AI chats with someone, but they actually made them public and all their personal info is still out there.
🎩 H/T: Henk Van Ess
📰 Identifying the Crypto Entrepreneur Linked to Popular Forum Trading in ‘Leaked’ Nudes of Women
Investigators tracked down the guy running a huge site where people traded stolen intimate photos of women and found he’s a crypto entrepreneur from New Zealand. Once they contacted him about it, the site went offline.
🎩 H/T: Kolina Koltai
🔎 OSINT Mapping Tool
OSINT Mapping Tool is a web app for organizing OSINT research where you create nodes for identifiers like social handles and phone numbers, pin them on Google Maps, and connect them to show relationships. Everything stays local in your browser, nothing gets sent anywhere.
🎩 H/T: anonymousRAID
🔎 Mail Access
Mail Access is a self-hosted OSINT tool for investigating email addresses. It checks breaches, social networks, DNS records, and the web to map out identities, assign exposure scores, and export findings as PDFs, CSVs, JSON, STIX, or Maltego files.
🎩 H/T: Katriel Moses
🔎 Search Phone
Search Phone a Python CLI tool for looking up phone number information using a variety of APIs.
🎩 H/T: Hack Underway
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