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🚨NEW: Russia bleeds tanks. We wanted to know how long Russia can hold out with the current losses, using heaps of old tanks from military bases. And used #AI to count & analyze fading tanks stocks. Visual investigation as @SZ_Investigativ together with @Se_Gier & @SZ visual team
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#DATA : Damage in #Mariupol city, as of Mar 18 as KML file readable in GoogleEarthPro, acc. to sat analysis by @UNITAR . Check out the extent across #residential areas Exposing RUS lies that only mil infrastructure is bombed #OSINT Check out the file here:
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We trained the AI model a few bases to recognize armored vehicles/tanks/IFV, which needed crisp satellite images. Helped by @Picterra , we trained & improved the model, so we can run it on many bases to understand the shrinking stock of vehicle types
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What experts at @IISS and @RUSI say - that the next two-year window will be crucial to show whether Russia can replenish tanks losses - mirrors our analysis: Fast shrinking & hyperdependence on old stocks, puts pressure on Putin, producing new tanks for the front
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This is Great!!! Telegram-Nearby-Map for your daily #OSINT geo stuff, amazing! Used it once or twice, already Joseph Jones put together a quick summary tutorial. Marries well with my explainer on Open Street Map. 👀 @Sector035
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We looked at the biggest military bases on land, abt 87, to understand why experts say that out of 5 tanks Russia sends to the UKR font 4 are used/refurbished. "86% of 1530 tanks delivered were refurbished tanks from storage". Michael Gjerstad, @IISS_org . Stocks aren't bottomless
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Reiche in Privatjets wollen vermeiden, dass man ihnen auf die Finger schaut. Bei einer monatelangen Datenrecherche zusammen mit dem NDR zu #Privatjet Flügen kam das auch heraus - Ein🧵 dazu wie Reiche im wortwörtlichen Sinne unter dem Radar fliegen
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An #OSINT dream come true: automated way to extract deleted (archived) tweets - FINALLY "capability to recover deleted Tweets & Twitter user data is a highly sought-after requirement for investigative journalists.: HELLS YEAH!!! @Sector035 , @cyb_detective
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Discover and extract deleted Tweets and Twitter user activity with ‘Twayback’ | OS2INT

Twayback is a lightweight and effective Python utility that enables users to search for, and download deleted Tweets by querying the Wayback Machine.

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New tanks, Putin's keen to make. And fast. Many many of them. @Marina_Miron  at the Department of War Studies King's College London tells us that Russia could face lacks in western components to do so. The only option: refurbish old ones...
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We wondered why Russia takes heaps of rusting rotten tanks from wet military site, that according to @HighMarsed "didnt move for years". "Russia doesnt seem to attempt to hide their stocks and you can look into some bases in the street view on google maps or yandex maps"
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In the end, big thanks goes to @picterra (which helped us and earlier the @nytimes reporing to count Gaza bomb craters) and @high_marsed for the support & explainer on the vehicle types and trends - Article here:
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Putin gehen die Panzer aus

Analysen von Satellitenbildern offenbaren, dass die Bestände schwinden. Der Materialmangel wird für Russland zum ernsthaften Problem. Wie lange hält der Aggressor noch durch?

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How jumpy & touchy the Kreml is right now, with their tank production ramp-up numbers  (& whether the pred. they share check out), some doubt. Case in point: Evan #Gershkovich who allegedly spied on Russian tank producer, facing 20 Years in prison
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Evan Gershkovich: US journalist in court as spy trial starts in Russia

If convicted of spying, the US journalist could face up to 20 years in prison.

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On August 26, 2022, a bomb hits the colorful playground of RES kids Paradise in Mekelle, Ethiopia. Frames of the climbing area, painted walls, iron stilts, it's all that remains. The attack showed what the warring parties, that fought a bloody war in Tigray, were capable of A🧵
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Quick #OSINT Thread: how to determine the exact location of a photographer, time, date... from an image and a few other details. A few months back I ran some training on the matter... Where is this? (1)
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Tricktip #OSINT #instagram : If you use "?__a=1" at the end of a post URL you get a full stack of meta data, incl "fact_check_information", "did_report_as_spam" variable, or "is_restricted_pending" All interesting for investigating #disinformation Example
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Ron Kaminsky on Google Dorking, worth a read
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🚨Persönliche Neuigkeiten: ab August starte ich bei der @SZ bei @SZ_Investigativ und werde dort helfen den Bereich open-source Recherche, #OSINT & #verification , aufzuziehen Ich freue mich sehr!🥳 👀DM für Stories ☕
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Private plane of Viktor Yanukovychs (Russian) former Ukrainian President (2010-2014), when he was removed), took off in Moscow & landed hours ago in Mink, Belarus. Past days also indicate travelling in & along the Russian border. inn 2014, Swiss gov froze Y. assets #OSINTUkraine
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Social Media Investigation — Using Maltego, by x-it
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Howdy, fellow #OSINT #Journalist . I want to share with you my latest checklist for #OSINT #company investigations. This way, you'll ensure you check all boxes when investigating... Links contain my go-to sources.... let's dive in (Version 1.0) - PDF at the end of 🧵
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New #OSINT Tool alert, found useful, basically a query builder for Twitter... 1. Confirm a location 2. Set radius 3. Find the tweets with a geotag Like "geocode:47.54781942311024,8.531048418816056,5.3km". Pretty helpful for localized news events...
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#OSINT guide: Looking for leaked or redacted documents on the internet, best for official docs, check out on platform search on Documentcloud:
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With #OSINT we can actually fly with the drone along the coordinate of destruction in #Mariupol
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Need a custom search engine for your #OSINT research: choose from more than 70 alternatives by @sprp77
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To know for sure how many died is impossible without the help of the government. Here again Jan Nyssen of the University of Ghent, who calculated the stats blames the Ethiopian gov for efficiently shielding Tigray from the outside world...
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Basic, but effective: advanced Twitter search operators, #OSINT
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Investigating crypto scams? Here is some of my go-to #OSINT toolbox for journalists (Thread)
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#Satellite investigations around #Ukraine crisis has many facets, opportunities & problems. Short thread on potential for more research & findings #OSINT , #Intelligence , #Ukraine ️ #Journalism
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After @Azure removed face compare feature, it left a hole for some in #OSINT . Yet don't fret. There're other platforms & code. One to bookmark: + API service are free. Though great for investigations, always find a 2nd or 3rd verifier! David will thank you
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#OSINT Pro tip: #Yandex image search is excellent in finding videos, also across video platforms: Let's take David H. as an example 1.Reverse search his courageousness 2.add to the search URL "&site=" 3.Get thumbnails results on YouTube (or whatever site)
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Äthiopiens Regierung will nicht, dass Reporter nach Tigray reisen, wo der Krieg mehr als eine halbe Million Tote gefordert hat. @BerndDoerries war trotzdem dort. Ich durfte mit #OSINT für die #SeiteDrei der @SZ unterstützen #SZPlus
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Das Sterben der anderen

Mehr als eine halbe Million Menschen sollen im Norden Äthiopiens umgekommen sein, in einem Krieg, für den sich die Welt nie interessiert hat. Jetzt ist Frieden – und zum ersten Mal kann man mit denen...

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Excellent #OSINT video tool for record taking: Download #YouTube subtitles to your local machine (plus auto translations)
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Conclusion: Video on Ukrainian soldiers getting out of van with red cross is authentic. BUT, it is part of a longer video & explains it's a humanitarian evacuation from Irpin accompanied by UKR soldiers. Cut that out the the message by RUS MFA misleads, making it #disinformation
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Der Fall zum Tod von Frau #Kellermayr geht in die zweite (und eventuell in die dritte) Runde. Neue Erkenntnisse entwickeln sich schnell, beinahe täglich... Heute auf SZ Panorama/Seite 8 Ein kurzer #verification #OSINT 🧵
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Fall Lisa-Maria Kellermayr: Neun Seiten Hass

Weitere Opfer von Drohungen und Hetze sind im Internet auf ein neunseitiges Handbuch des Hasses gestoßen. Es zeigt, wie die Täter vorgehen.

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"How to use open source satellite data for your investigative reporting", my guide from a while ago...
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How to use open source satellite data for your investigative reporting

Undoubtedly a vast goldmine of information — perhaps too vast — many journalists still shy away from working with satellite data…

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For any doofus who says free osint is "just googling" Post by Igor S. Bederov
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How to use #ChatGPT to adapt an open source #osint investigations framework for your own needs - hypothesis testing etc - also suggests methods but not tools (would have hoped for an example but otherwise interesting)
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A #German firm with the blessing of a 🇩🇪 regional state administration, that is still financially involved with 🇷🇺 St Petersburg airport, allows now sanctioned military planes to operate, incl top human right violators #Wagner group? Sadly, no fiction - we found the planes #OSINT
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Excellent camera feature analysis possible for geo #OSINT offered by this Calculator project: Maybe something for @Sector035 & co, seems a good addition in the toolbox
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🌤️Google dorking #OSINT updates for 2022, invaluable...
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Google Dorks List and Updated Database in 2022 - AOFIRS

How to Use Google Dorks? To use a Google Dork, you simply type in a Dork into the search box on Google and press “Enter”. Here are some of the best Go...

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The verification of a video showing armed men in military uniform exiting a vehicle allegedly from the #RedCross occupied our little #OSINT group @brechcaste , @akhmxt , @ArchitMeta & I. We tried to find as much detail as possible and Brecht wrote a wonderful piece..some highlights
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#OSINT for investigative journalism in a single chart? That's possible...👀 Created this diagram as a #visual representation of what areas I use it for most commonly. Where I start and end...
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#OSINT pro-tip for reverse image search: Enhance the dynamic range of low light images. Take this cathedral, Notre Dame Basilica, before and after enhancement - much better results after editing 🥳 #verification
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By far one of the most current and useful guides on #Osint Tools for #Telegram
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I find it crazy how TikTok went from the "app for teens" to "we are hiring a Criminal Intelligence Analyst" (see job ad on Glassdoor). Also, crazy: how much intel Glassdoor has... Thread on job review platform Glassdoor, adding to open-source investigations #OSINT #verification
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List of the best open source intelligence #osint learning/training guides PDFs from 2023
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Its hard to end this thread at all because so much horrible stuff happened. It will take years to get to the bottom of it. If you want to read more what the amazing @BerndDoerries and I, at a lesser extent, came up with, you can read the story online
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OSINT Protips - (Very useful) collection of useful #OSINT tips and tricks. By @ohshint_
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A woman, let's call her Ayana, worked 5km away, heard the sound of the explosions & saw a fighter jet fly away after the impact. She found the charred bodies of two dead children on site. One of the first videos showed more bodies
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NEW: It took Russian MoD hours to upload video on "Humanitarian Response in Ukraine" Col.Genr Mizintsev claims "terrorists . use local residents & foreign citizens as human shield" (ergo, claim civilians are being held hostage). Filmed at 11:20 - 11:30am, released 2:42/4:42pm
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Super useful for journalists investigating Instagram accounts, allows you to collect a CSV file on account following "GitHub: OSINT tool to export to excel/csv someone's instagram followers and/or following with details " Via @cyb_detective
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#OSINT protips: Incredibly useful at this stage for journalists assessing the situation in UKR: Street Cameras... Thread
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Frühwarnsystem Social Media: Wie Videostream Inhalte live Tierquälerei und häusliche Gewalt dokumentieren und was die Strafverfolgung und die Streamer Community davon lernen könnte... Mit wichtigen Worten von @OSINT Hacktivistin @n3ll41 , wie ich finde
Frühwarnsystem Social Media: Videostream dokumentiert live Tierquälerei und häusliche Gewalt

Live auf der Videostreaming Plattform Twitch misshandelt ein angeblich Jugendlicher seine Mutter, wird selbst misshandelt und vergeht sich…

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"Yes, I heard bombs & the sound of the jet & me as an aid worker & some of my co-workers gathered with their families at that place, at ResKidsParadise, where I saw that it was totally devastated & mothers were crying, looking for their children who were playing there", told me
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Hours of video footage to go thru for #OSINT project? Lil thread on speedy analysis tools Imaging: you analyze riots of ydays Covid protests in Viennas #w1812 . Rioters attacked police. Searching YTube for footage >20 min recorded livestream of “LIVE: Demo in Wien”, 29k views (0)
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#OSINT “I will tell you about a method that is not too popular, but can really help you find web pages related to a certain nickname/name that are not indexed by Google and cannot be found using nickname enumeration tools (Maigret, Sherlock etc).“ tutorial
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When you need search by nickname in public IP addresses search engines (Shodan, Netlas, Fofa etc)

One of the most common tasks in OSINT is to collect information about a person by nickname and/or last name and first name. It can be…

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Ethiopia's Air force announced two days before the event, they would strike, she said. "Since the attack, no one has spoken out or cared for the victims, who have no voice", she says Will Ethiopian ever investigate? This has to happen, as much remains unknown
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What seems to be Russian trolls fabricated false media websites and even videos. We worked with two sites that emulate Sueddeutsche Zeitung. #osint 🧵 how the actors went about...
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@LaetitiaBader Can I DM you on the matter of Tigray?
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A short thread on attacks targeting 6 Ukrainian #hospitals - in only a few days (since Mar 6) Partly relying on the excellent efforts by the @bellingcat crew, collating Russian attacks against civilians ( @AricToler et all): 👏
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Bellingcat has been logging incidents that appear to depict civilian impact or harm since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine. We have now visualised this data in a TimeMap feature that allows users to explore what we have found 👇
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Wow, thats a HUGE bummer and concern for anyone in our #OSINT community and maybe a strike of luck #disinformation creators: AI generated FAKE satellite images. 😡 So scary... thx for sharing @JordanWildon
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The documented sexual crimes against victims are from all walks of life and perpetrators come from ALL armed groups involved in the war: Data: Ethiopian women and men, Amhara & Tigray ethnic groups, Orthodox Christians, but also students, health workers, refugees and prisoners..
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Went on #eBay to shop for 👶 baby clothes. Found instead people peddling Ukraine war trophies 🏆, uniform & equipment from dead Russian soldiers 🙀. One is selling war trophies labelled with "traces of soldier's blood"... An #OSINT thread
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Luzhanka Border Crossing yesterday showing jam/cars waiting, @Maxar Ukraine -> Hungary: compared with Aug 2020: At 48.164904420752634, 22.574237707412053 #Satellite
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They'were "only" 🇦🇫 contractors for 🇩🇪. Now they'hv tortured bodies, dead or beaten relatives. Often lack "bureaucratic proof" of their prev. employer #GIZ , proof they're at “risk” bcs of GIZ work. Today most are 🇩🇪 denied assistance. Broken Promises Month's long #OSINT thread
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NEW: Germany's Foreign Office funded workshops inviting Myanmars Military Yunta officials. On the agenda: Unilateral sanctions. How can that be? short 🧵 via @sz
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Myanmar: Deutsche Workshops auch für ein mörderisches Regime

Das Auswärtige Amt hat durch eine deutsche Stiftung Seminare finanziert, an denen Mitarbeiter der Junta in Myanmar teilnehmen durften.

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One of the grandest #osint tool collections is online again IntelTechniques OSINT Online Search Tool:
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Smartass #osint Facebook trickery: Facebook Group Members Scraper: Obtain group member infos via TypeScript - from CyberRaya
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“How to find online cameras with Google?“
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She went missing on Nov 27th. I am asking for help, opening up the international #OSINT conversation on the #missing person Jasmin D. from Gauting (Germany, stayed at a girls' dormitory there). The police are now searching with pictures, hoping for witnesses Thread #SOCINT 🧵
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June 7 vs June 4, 2022, destruction of the Nika-Tera grain terminal is clearly visible, spanning the big terminal structures. Great images by @planet , making the situation transparent Excellent geolocation work by @hengenahm
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The destroyed area of the Nika-Tera grain terminal in Mykolaiv. 📍46.850864, 31.981988
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How to export telegram chats history and translate - to make it searchable...? 1. Open your Telegram app 2. Settings -> Exports chat history -> set path 3. determine timeframe, e.g May 1 to Present -> Files Now you have a "messages.HTML" file on your local machine.
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Excellent HUGE #osint tools collection, updated by @cyb_detective , the latest on #aviation , #Shiptracking , public #infrastructure , trains, politics and user forensics...and so much more: great starter for anyone who wants to get started in this field
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Um zum Schluss zu kommen: Daten zu analysieren, um dem Privatjet Sektor auf die Finger zu schauen, ist kein leichtes Unterfangen. Deshalb freut es mich umso mehr, mit @ChBaars NDR & Kollegin @datentaeterin zu dem Thema zu publizieren. Dazu kommt noch mehr!
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👀For improving blurry facial images in #OSINT investigations, big fan of - then alt. using #pimeyes or other alternatives, to increase the quality of results...
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LOVE @nixintel 5 Tools To Help With Geolocation, nice work mate, we all profit from it 👏 - - - - Shadows in EearthPro -
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Also, check out all the latest and best #OSINT journalism stories in this updated #GoogleSheets : Plenty to learn and to be inspired by... Thanks to @mxbernhard ; @JordanWildon ; @TomTomjarvis ; @brechtcastel et al. for the support
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Latest OSINT Journalism

Latest Stories Headline,OSINT angle,Category,Tools/data used,What's good?,Published (MM/DD/YYYY),Link,Who's involved? Fact-check-patients-being-treated-on-footpath-is-from-up-not-delhi,Reverse image...

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Why did Ethiopian Air Force bomb the playground, that was only just two years in operation? Here we can only speculate. Let me venture one thought: Inaccuracy. Which is inherent, as the Dutch OSINT outlet @oryxspioenkop write in one of their posts on the Ethiopian airforce...
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"Satellites today lack basic security controls. With as little as $300, you, too, can hack into commercial satellites. So that’s an emerging IoT problem." Error Code by Robert Vamosi
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... since this attack was with high chance, perpetrated by the Ethiopian forces. At least, this suggests a brought #OSINT analysis: 1. TPLF has no fighter jets that could perpetrate such an event (at least there is no public record for those)
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Switzerland... "has been the biggest recipient of transactions by Russian private individuals — ahead of Britain, Spain, Luxembourg and the United States, according to a report compiled by the Swiss Embassy in Moscow." BostonGlobe
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Sanctions vs. neutrality: Swiss fine-tune response to Russia - The Boston Globe

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has put Switzerland’s much-vaunted neutrality to the test — and along with it, the country’s traditional role as international intermediary and reputation as a safe haven...

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Speeding up geolocation search across platforms, use this cheeky tool: - enter coordinates, and search YouTube, Twitter, Yandex,..., Opencellid (cell towers), Shadowmaps (chronolocation) etc. Can be really helpful, thanks @cyb_detective for mentioning it
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NEW: I am still checking on the #OSINT verification of the #TaurusLeak , with andvanced audio analysis forensics and other checks (so far, most checks out). Its something the experte have to give their final vertict on, but there are various tools...
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3. Around the time of the attack, there were noticeable movement on the ground of the Bahir Dar air base, which houses the ETAF's MiG-23BN fleet & possibly some Su-27s
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Ich kann Remini auch sehr empfehlen, obwohl es in der Praxis zu seltsamen Ergebnissen führen kann, aber einen Versuch ist es absolut wert #OSINT #Journalism
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#OSINT Tools: The image unblurring/sharpening tool could help yield better reverse image search and facial recognition results. #IMINT #ImageAnalysis #ReverseImageSearch #FacialRecognition
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Search trick Wayback Machine to collect archived broadcasts on a topic AND e.g. a certain year: use "Advanced Search returning JSON, XML, and more", active multiple columns, & output as CSV Example: "Wiredcard 2020". listing times when Wirecard was broadcasted at the Tagesschau
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2. The planes that several witnesses saw in the air after the attack matches the description of planes that carry the suspected bomb type. We closely looked at the craters onsite. My colleague even went to the site. He found a piece of metal. We analyzed it...
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Need some inspiration on online search Dorking methods? #OSINT
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After around 100,000 people flocked to #Itaewon streets for the Halloween festivities, at least 120 (current count) were "crushed to death", the verdict so far. Perhaps not a conclusive analysis but here is what we know about the architecture #OSINT 🧵
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Wow, this is pretty neat: On a #GoogleStreetView image, investigators find Mafioso Gioacchino Gammino, after years of living undetected, he was just standing there #OSINT
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Databases for leaked data, as an Osint resource
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From the OSINT community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the OSINT community

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Attended a loooong, slightly superfluous session on Google Dorking recently, but it made me think of best practices for crawling Russian social media service VK_.com (VKontakte) - quick thread...
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Huge fan of this Telegram bot, which tells you in which groups a certain Telegram account participates ...mentioned also here by the wonderful @cyb_detective (and an awesome collection of other tools)
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TgScanRobot Simple bot to show which telegram groups a person is member of Only a few requests are free. analog (also limited free) - Telegram #osint 🧵🧵 6/11
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Excellent post using open data to track & investigating the maritime sector (by Dipti Yadav) My takeaways: - ID via IMO and MMSI - key databases - great explainer on tracking containers - Shodan tracking cyber sec - Vessel ID Laundering
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How to verify leak data with #osint ? Here is how. A guide on the presentation at this year's German Osint Conference #gosintcon2023
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"Da gibt es Personen, die schicken ihren Hund von A nach B, mit dem Privatjet oder Pharmafirmen, die ihre Mitarbeiter mit dem Jet auf Urlaubsreisen schicken", so Gössling...
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2nd class workers from the outset? 000nds of PCP contractors didn't earn employment contracts. So called #GIZ “facilitators”/“advisors”, were cheaper, & needed less protection. Sometimes working years for GIZ🇦🇫. To this day, Ministries doens't even refer to them as “Ortskräfte”
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Extreme heat causes one of the world's biggest fresh water lakes to try up ( #Poyang , China) Aug 24 (right) vs May 5 (left) 🫣
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Great addition to your #OSINT toolkit for 2024: IDCrawl: - searching across social media, public records, schools, email addresses etc.
Free People Search Engine - IDCrawl

Find people online. IDCrawl.com is a free people search engine that organizes social media profiles, public web information, phone numbers, email addresses and criminal records.

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A #OSINT quick lesson how to verify pixellated images: Wuppertals train station was attacked by hackers & screens portrayed explicit adult content We re-engineer the pixellation, e.g via & ID the recently uploaded thumbnails. Time/date can be confirmed
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