Cyber detective OSINT tools Newsletter #3(2023)

Hello, dear subscribers! Thank you very much for staying with me!

In this newsletter I will briefly tell you about the most, in my opinion, interesting updates in my projects in the last two weeks (February 23 - March 8).

Tools for video analysis

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Tools for video📽️ analysis Basic online tools to help you use information from videos more effectively in your #osint investigations: - text extraction - deepfake detection - instant identification of key frames - metadata view and more. (1/15)🧵

In this thread you will learn how to extract text from video using neural networks, automatically find keyframes of video, identify deep fakes, extract metadata from video and much more.

You can find the tools from this thread in my collection of #osint tools in the sections: Social Media -> YouTube, Video editing and analysis, Image editing tools https://github.com/cipher387/osint_stuff_tool_collection/.

Nuclei for OSINT

Nuclei is a very fast and easy to use universal network scanner. It was originally developed for pentesters and other cybersecurity specialists, but it can also be used in OSINT for nickname enumeration, collecting site information, and extracting data from html pages (links, emails, bitcoin addresses, etc),

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These article on my Medium blog is for those who have already heard something about Nuclei, but haven't yet figured out how this awesome network scanner works.

medium.comUsing Nuclei for OSINT. 5-minute basic guideNuclei is a tool for scanning websites for vulnerabilities. But it can be used for a variety of investigative or scientific purposes.

As a supplement to the Medium article, I made a repository on Github where I collected a couple dozen Nuclei templates that contain regular expressions for extracting different data.

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Juicy info Nuclei templates Nuclei scanner templates for extracting emails, hyperlinks, bitcoin addresses, possible nickname handlers and phone numbers from web pages. github.com/cipher387/juic…

Gravatar in OSINT

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In this article you will learn: find Gravatar account by email get Gravatar profile info from email address get a links to Gravatar profiles for an emails list guess email of Gravatar users by MD5 hash

medium.com4 easy tricks for using Gravatar in OSINTGravatar (Globally Recognized Avatars) is a service that allows user to upload avatar and personal information about himself once, and then…

The Gravatar article describes the famous "profile by MD5 hash" trick and how to get the profile data in JSON format, and explains the example code in Google Apps Script that lets you load the Gravatar profile data into the Google Sheet based on a long list of emails.

6 tips for working with presentations and video reports in foreign languages

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The #osint community includes participants from all over the world and every country has something to learn from. 6 tips for working with presentations and video reports in foreign languages (1/7)🧵🧵🧵

And finally, a small selection of services to help you read presentations and watch video reports in languages you don't understand well.

Thank you very much for your attention! I hope to send you another letter in 2-3 weeks. There will be new threads, articles, as well as updates to the main collection and map. Again, thank you so much for staying with me!