As we navigate the shifting threat landscape of late 2024 and 2025, characterized by generative artificial intelligence, a splintering digital commons, and the blurring of online and physical risks, the role of Open-Source Intelligence is not just growing—it is transforming into the primary sensor for understanding our world. This...
In July 2024, protests broke out in Bangladesh in response to a controversial government job quota system, which allocated one third of government jobs to descendants of veterans from the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. As the government responded with a crackdown on demonstrators, the protests escalated into widespread unrest, and...
The corporate world is well aware of the manifold risks that M&A and other investment deals can pose. This is reflected in the immense growth of the commercial due diligence market, which currently has an astonishing growth rate of 9.5% and is set to hit a volume...
This week, in our Center of Excellence Column, we’re revealing threat actors who hide behind phony social media accounts with OSINT techniques. To demonstrate the use in practice, we share a real case study involving a scammer conducted entirely in our standalone OSINT solution, SL Crimewall. So, let’s...
This week in the Social Links Center of Excellence Column, we’re diving deep into increasing an organization’s cybersecurity state with OSINT. Since the benefits of open-source intelligence for cybersecurity are often discussed, we created a case study to show exactly how it’s possible. Let’s jump into...
Learning a discipline such as OSINT is not always as straightforward as learning some techniques and discovering new tools. Understanding how and when these things should be employed in a given case is crucial. This is why we publish our use cases—they give the reader a real-world context for...
