Breakdown of the self-identified industries of members of the UK OSINT Community when they registered.

🚨 Data Drop 🚨

The UK OSINT Community just hit 2,000 members, and the numbers reveal where OSINT is exploding:

🔐 Cybersecurity 21%
🎓 Students 17%
👮 Police & Gov 14%
📰 Media 7%

OSINT has gone mainstream. This is only the beginning 🚀

👉 Join free: osint.uk/join

💡 Intelligence careers aren’t just built in agencies.

At King’s College London, War Studies Department, Dr Ross Peel, Dr Rajan Basra, Venandi, Saul Yardley and Nathaniel Fried of the UK OSINT Community showed how OSINT is reshaping the path into intelligence.

🌍 The future is bright.

🚨 Crypto Intelligence at Christmas 🚨

Andrew Mackay (Royal United Services Institute) joins our December event to unpack the links between crypto, security & #OSINT 🔍

Claim your FREE ticket 👇
luma.com/ld7b0b54

AI is reshaping cyber defence, and OSINT is next 🇬🇧

We’re excited to announce Ahmed Achchak, CEO of Qevlar AI, as a panelist for EF x UK OSINT. He’ll share how an AI-native approach could transform intelligence.

🗓️ Oct 23 | London
🎟️ luma.com/ty3c3iny?tk=...

🛡️ CEOs face 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀 long before physical ones.

From deepfakes to data leaks, executive protection starts with OSINT.

See how 𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗧 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 helps safeguard leaders before harm happens.

🔗 osint.tel/tONYWvh

🔥 Emma Henshaw from TRM Labs is speaking at our Crypto & #OSINT Christmas event 🎄

On-chain crime, global investigations, insider insights. Don’t miss it.

🎟️ Free tickets: luma.com/ld7b0b54

Day 1 at the International Security Expo 🎥 #ISE2025

An incredible start, from real conversations on security challenges to showing how OSINT can give investigators the edge.

We’re proud to stand alongside so many dedicated professionals making the world safer.

We’re at NAMIC’s 130th Annual Convention in San Diego (Sept 28–Oct 1).

Find sales lead Viktor A for a demo of OSINT Industries’ platform — trusted for due diligence, AML, fraud detection & counterfeit checking.

Find out more:

YouTube video by UK OSINT Community Shodan Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide to the Internet’s Search Engine

📖 New Guide: Mastering Shodan for OSINT

@rxerium.com walks you through how to use @shodanhq.bsky.social and the Shodan CLI to uncover vulnerabilities, monitor assets, and turn the internet’s exposed devices into actionable intelligence.

Watch the full guide here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0DS...

Excited to welcome Robert Duncan, VP Product Strategy at Netcraft, as a panelist for Entrepreneurs First x UK OSINT Community 🇬🇧

Moderated by Nathaniel Fried, the discussion will explore the future of OSINT and tackling threats at scale.

🗓️ Oct 23 | London
🎟️ luma.com/ty3c3iny?tk=...

Cardiff came alive for OSINT Wales 🔎

Packed house of investigators, analysts & enthusiasts hearing from Clare Johnson (Women in Cyber Wales), Mike Tuck (Thrifty) & Joshua Richards.

Thanks to Thrifty / Mike Tuck for paying the beer tab 🍻

Mike Neville, CEO of Super Recognisers International (& former Scotland Yard) explains in our latest Retail Crime Roundtable.

Watch the full Roundtable discussion on the UK OSINT Community YT channel #superrecognisers

👉 youtu.be/Gfa_c7u_gVA

Philip Mayrhofer, CEO of Maltego, joins us at Entrepreneur First x UK OSINT Community, Oct 23.

Hear him on the future of OSINT + AI-native intelligence.

📍 Entrepreneurs First
🗓️ Oct 23 | 18:30

Register 👇
luma.com/ty3c3iny?tk=...

🚨 Chinese virtual espionage op exposed.

FDD uncovered 5+ fake firms tied to Beijing, using bogus job ads to target high-value people.

🕵️‍♀️ OSINT Industries helped trace email to freelance profiles & shared servers — exposing the wider network.

🔗 Full report: www.fdd.org/analysis/202...

YouTube video by UK OSINT Community Find who owns a website with OSINT using Whoxy

🕵️ Find who owns a website with OSINT using Whoxy and uncover hidden identities and connections.

In this video guide @accessosint.bsky.social (from OSINT Praxis) shows how to use WHOIS history, reverse lookups and bookmarklets to reveal valuable leads.

Learn how 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSaH...

YouTube video by UK OSINT Community Using OSINT to Investigate on Twitter/X

🕵️‍♂️ New OSINT training drop: Learn how to use X (Twitter) Advanced Search to trace usernames, map networks & uncover hidden accounts.

Presented by @rxerium.com for the UK OSINT Community.

🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj2m...

YouTube video by UK OSINT Community Information Laundromat: Tracking Misinformation and Disinformation Online

🎓 A masterclass in OSINT & disinformation from the German Marshall Fund / Alliance for Securing Democracy.

Aaronb hosts Bret Schafer (creator of Hamilton 2.0) & Peter Benzoni (co-creator of Information Laundromat), tools that expose how sites launder disinfo.

👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPDG...

New batch of emails from Russia's disinformation campaign, which added Chancellor Merz of Germany to its list of targets, which has previously focused on Moldovan president Maia Sandu and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

🚨 Free Enterprise Trial 🚨

👉 Get access: www.osint.industries/offerings/en... or comment below.

Trusted by 5,000+ orgs, OSINT Industries delivers real-time, 100% accurate intelligence on phone numbers, emails, usernames & crypto.

Built for corporate security, compliance & due diligence.

YouTube video by UK OSINT Community Regex in OSINT: Extract Emails, Phone Numbers, Hidden Data

🔎 New video: @accessosint.bsky.social shows how to use Regex in OSINT to extract emails, phone numbers & hidden data from code, text & online sources.

Featuring tools like Regex101, AppVector, T. Brian Jones, and Einar Lielmanis/Liam Newman.

Watch here 👇

youtu.be/eWSC-9vc6pM

🇧🇷 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝗢𝘀𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮́𝘁𝗶𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗦 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗮̃𝗼 𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹𝗼!

At 15:15 BRT, our CTO Ismail E presents:

🕵️ “Tracking Foreign Government Operatives with OSINT” — a live demo using Palette 2.0 and Kiel.

Come by our stand, grab exclusive merch, and talk OSINT with us!

YouTube video by UK OSINT Community OSINT on TikTok: 4 Tools Investigators NEED to Know

📹 First OSINT training video experiment.

Community co-founder @nathanielf.bsky.social demos free OSINT tools for TikTok, from upload timestamps to account tracking & trend analysis.

We’re testing this format, let us know what you think 👇

youtu.be/sy8O8eE4qWU

#OSINT tip: Search London via Streetview OCR 🕵️‍♂️📷

Posters, signs, vehicles—instantly searchable thanks to this clever tool by Daniel Faram.

🔗 london.publicinsights.uk

✍️ By @accessosint.bsky.social

Enhanced Challenges and Mitigation Strategies for OSINT AI Integration Exploring the risks of integrating AI into OSINT workflows, from hallucinations to evidentiary limitations, and outlining mitigation strategies to preserve analytical integrity.

🤖 AI in #OSINT offers power but brings risks: hallucinations, weak evidence & bias.

Paul & Neal (The Coalition of Cyber Investigators) share strategies to keep integrity intact.

www.osint.uk/content/enha...

🇮🇳 India: 1.4B people. 22 languages. SOCMINT everywhere.

From disinfo in Delhi to protests in Mumbai, OSINT in India is complex, fast-moving, and full of opportunity.

📍 Learn where to search, what to avoid, and how to stay legal.
👉 osint.tel/e181d2D

🕵️ Final day at Defcon33 — proud Gold Sponsors!

On Friday, CEO Nathaniel Fried joined the Recon Village panel:

“The State of OSINT in 2025: The Technical Arms Race."

It's been a great time for the 𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗧 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 team — connecting, sharing ideas & talking OSINT worldwide.

🇧🇷 𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗧 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 is heading to São Paulo for OsintomátiCOPS (Aug 18–20) as Diamond Sponsors!

CTO Ismail E will demo 🕵️ “Tracking Foreign Government Operatives with OSINT” using Palette.

Don’t miss it — see you at Teatro Fecap!

🕵️‍♂️ From a single phishing SMS to unmasking Darcula — the tycoon behind the Magic Cat toolkit linked to 80% of global SMS phishing.

Researchers Erlend L. & Harrison S. from Mnemonic used the 𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗧 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 platform to help connect the dots. 📖 osint.tel/mG2bvNB

🏆 Huge congratulations to Zilla for taking 1st place in Recon Village’s #Geosint competition at #DefCon33!

Amazing to hear OSINT Industries get a shoutout in his victory speech, and even better to see our tech powering such a wide range of investigations at the world’s biggest hacker gathering. 🔍

🧨 What if a phone number and OSINT were the only barriers to a rapist?

This case study shows how one UK officer used OSINT Industries to unmask a predator Match Group left unchecked.

Read the full case study 👇