Cyber detective OSINT tools Newsletter #4(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 (and OSINT community in general) in the last two weeks (March 9 - April 1).
How to automate the analysis of links to user profiles obtained with nickname enumeration tools
A detailed step-by-step guide on how to use Nuclei to compile a list of users with certain nicknames on various social networks, and then automatically search those pages for data useful for investigation.
Nuclei Templates for extracting cryptocurrency addresses
I continue to add new templates to the Nuclei Templates for OSINT repository. The latest update is a dozen templates with regular expressions to extract cryptocurrency wallet numbers.
SerScorza OSINT and FORENSICS tools lists
https://github.com/CScorza - you can find many extensive and well-designed collections of tools for OSINT and Forensics in this Github profile.
Open question: Is it possible to use neural networks to create a whole series of photos of one person for a fake social network profile ("sock puppet")?
Thread shows possible methods of generating, using neural networks, a series of different images of the same person, and describes the problems that can be encountered during this task.
How to download photos from any Instagram account without authorization?
One of the most popular tweets of recent weeks. Note that there are links in the comments to Chrome extensions that allow you to download more pictures at once.
For the finale of this issue, I will tell you about two new projects by long-time and active members of the OSINT community.
GVision
Google Cloud Vision API is a machine learning-powered image analysis service that provides developers with tools to understand the contents of an image. It can detect objects, faces, text, logos, and more within an image (c.)
GVision (https://github.com/GONZOsint/gvision) allows to automate work with this API.
Poastal
https://github.com/jakecreps/poastal - is an email OSINT tool that provides valuable information on any email address. With Poastal, you can easily input an email address and it will quickly answer several questions, providing you with crucial information.
Determine the name of the person who has the email.
Check if the email is deliverable or not.
Find out if the email is disposable or not.
Identify if the email is considered spam.
Check if the email is registered on popular platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Parler, Rumble, MeWe, Imgur, Adobe, Wordpress, and Duolingo.
(quote from Poastal’s repo)
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!