OSINT Industries

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OSINT Industries visited SEC Philippines HQ in Makati City, meeting with the Director of the Enforcement and Investor Protection Department to discuss how open-source intelligence supports modern investigations 🇵🇭

Looking forward to continued conversations 🤝

Your brain sabotages OSINT investigations 🧠

👉🏼 Confirmation bias: seeking only supporting evidence
👉🏼 Anchoring bias: locked to first clues
👉🏼 Availability heuristic: popular over accurate

Document negatives. Seek contradictions. Stay structured 💻

Which bias trips you up most? ⬇️

Iran's $40M assassination crowdfund was built on WordPress 🤯

One email address searched through OSINT Industries helped an FDD analyst trace the site to a former Iranian state propaganda employee.

Curious how? 👉🏼 osint.ac/fatwa_iran

Try it yourself ➡️ osint.tel/trial_form

OSINT in the classroom 🎓

Megadose Palenath joined a hands on OSINT & social engineering workshop at ESAIP in France 🇫🇷 with live demos of our tools in real investigations.

Try OSINT Industries 👇
www.osint.industries

⭐ Trusted by Investigative Journalists ⭐

'Helpful in checking data reliability... helps uncover new leads when investigations stall.'

Julien Joly: verification that journalists trust.

📰 Reliable. Verified.

UnHinged: OSINT and the Fight for Safety on Dating Apps | OSINT Case Study When apps fail to prevent assault, OSINT makes the difference. With OSINT Industries, RASSO Unit officers identified the rapist behind a Hinge profile — and brought justice for his victim.

Happy Valentine's Day 💘

Millions will swipe right today. But until platforms do better, OSINT Industries ensures predators can't hide behind a deleted profile.

Full case study ⬇️

🔎 Investigation workflow tips:

👉🏼 Start with a clear objective
👉🏼 Document as you go, not at the end
👉🏼 Review findings every few hours
👉🏼 Negative results matter

Build the system once, use it every time.

Join us for more tradecraft tips 🎯

🔍 Challenge Alert: A Taste of Influence: Part 3

Individual reuses identifiers. Use previous email to find last 4 digits of phone number.

Your mission: Use the email and OSINT to find the last four digits.

Flag Format: OSINT{XXXX}

🎮 Play now: osint.tel/ctf_27

Full details on the platform.

OSINT Basics: What is OSINT? Well, OSINT is like being a detective, but instead of relying on secret informants, you use information that’s out there for everyone to see...

OSINT has been around since WWII. Most people still can't explain what it is.

Here's the guide ⬇️
www.osint.industries/post/osint-b...

Our President Megadose Palenath delivered technical OSINT training at a Franco-Australian programme on combating online child exploitation (JCLEC, Jakarta).

26 investigators from from 8 ASEAN countries attended the 5-day intensive 🇮🇩🇹🇭🇰🇭🇻🇳🇲🇾🇵🇭🇹🇱🇧🇳

Grateful to DCSD, OFMIN, AFP, JCLEC

One photo can contain dozens of data points. Faces, objects, text, architecture. Each is a pivot.

This guide covers image OSINT tools: reverse image search, AI facial recognition, and extracting intelligence from visual evidence.

Read now ⬇️
www.osint.industries/post/image-o...

Telegram OSINT tip: Channel search doesn't index everything until you scroll to load old messages.

Use Ctrl+F on desktop and scroll to load history first.

Access public channels via t.me links without joining to stay covert.

What's your go-to Telegram investigation technique? ⬇️

Guest Post: Lagos Doesn't Believe in Tears: Pro-Kremlin Youtube Network Operates Out of Nigeria Welcome to a special post on Memetic Warfare from Max Lesser on a pro-Russia YouTube network below.

Five YouTube channels. 5.8 million views. Pro-Kremlin disinformation out of Nigeria 🇳🇬

FDD used OSINT Industries to expose three brothers running the operation, amplifying Russian narratives with AI-generated anchors and repurposed interviews.

Investigation ⬇️

Handling Digital Evidence: Our Ultimate Guide to Forensic OSINT Learn how forensic OSINT turns digital traces into defensible evidence. Make online data verifiable, credible, and courtroom-ready.

Digital evidence doesn't disappear. It hides 👀

Metadata, deleted content, geolocation, domain registrations. Forensic OSINT turns all of it into legally defensible proof.


New guide is live. Read it:
osint.tel/kmWMBOi

Switzerland: 10th safest country. Until it wasn't.

Violent robbery + attempted kidnapping. Zero suspects. Just a stolen card and email.

One OSINT search = full suspect identity revealed.

Swiss cybercrime unit. Real case. Real arrest.

Read it unfold ⬇️
www.osint.industries/project/swis...

The 2013 Boston Marathon attack taught OSINT a harsh lesson.

Reddit misidentified innocent people as suspects. Journalists amplified it. Speed over verification destroys lives.

What OSINT mistakes have you witnessed? Share below.

19,000 Norwegians targeted. 40,000 messages intercepted.

NRK used OSINT Industries to map 50+ digital identities and unmask Darcula, the developer behind the Magic Cat phishing network.

The operation shut down the next day.

Full report ⬇️
www.skup.no/sites/defaul...

🔌 Premium Modules Now API-Ready! 🔌

Premium modules are now queryable via API. Access more modules directly from your own tools and workflows.

API docs ➡️ docs.osint.industries

Facebook investigator tip: Profile numeric IDs never change, even when names and usernames do.

Track the ID, not the display name. It's the one constant when someone's trying to hide.

The best investigators don't chase usernames. They track immutable identifiers.

A tiger cub in a crate. Two traffickers arrested.

Watch how The Wildlife Justice Commission used OSINT to take down an online wildlife trafficking ring.

Read the full case study ⬇️
www.osint.industries/project/a-cu...

OSINT and VPNs: A Practical Guide to Virtual Private Networks in Open-Source Intelligence OSINT VPN mastery helps investigators detect VPN use, protect OpSec, and turn hidden traffic into intelligence across jurisdictions and platforms.

VPNs in OSINT cut both ways.

They protect your investigation. But when your target uses one, it becomes evidence.

Detecting VPN use, reading the patterns, and using them yourself correctly.

This guide covers it all. Read more ⬇️

TV2's investigation: Russian property owners near Norwegian military bases identified using OSINT Industries phone tracking.

Led to new legislation requiring foreign purchase approval near strategic sites.

Real OSINT, real impact 🎯

Read more ⬇️
skup.no/sites/defaul...

Your OpSec is weaker than you think 🤯

Strip metadata from screenshots. Browser fingerprinting works in incognito use VMs.

VPNs aren't fully anonymous. Never use personal accounts on investigation devices. OpSec is professional hygiene.

What's your biggest OpSec challenge? Share in the comments.

Nathaniel F and Brett R recently presented to Greater Manchester Police on applying OSINT in live policing environments.

Engaging with officers across multiple units and discussing real investigative use cases reinforced our commitment to supporting frontline policing with actionable intelligence👮‍♂️🔍

Playing with Fire: OSINT and China’s Great Firewall Explore how OSINT analysts navigate China’s Great Firewall to uncover hidden data, social media intel, and the complexities of China’s digital ecosystem.

China's Great Firewall blocks Western platforms, requires verified identities, and censors content in real time.

OSINT work requires circumvention tools, Chinese platform expertise, and strict OpSec to protect sources.

Guide ⬇️

🎓 OSINT Industries Makes Academic Waves

Just cited in IEEE Access research!

Paper "Social Engineering Analysis Framework" by NASK researcher references OSINT Industries as comprehensive OSINT resource.

Peer-reviewed validation ✅
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An honour for Nathaniel F and Brett R to be invited by the West Midlands ROCU Cyber Crime Unit to speak on how OSINT is being used in modern police investigations.

Great to see OSINT firmly embedded in UK law enforcement operations 🔍

🔍 Challenge Alert: Identify a Personal Email Address

An individual has online presence across platforms. Email can be found via public info, not on main profile.
Use OSINT to find the email. Details on platform.

Flag: OSINT{EMAIL_ADDRESS}

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Where do you start learning OSINT?

🔎Free: OSINT Framework, Bellingcat

🔎Communities: UK OSINT, Reddit

🔎Practice: Trace the Face, Geoguessr

Tools change. Tradecraft doesn't.

How'd you start?