Every investigation starts somewhere, and in open-source intelligence (OSINT), that somewhere is online. And the range of websites that an OSINT practitioner may use can be vast and varied, from social media posts and breach forums to WHOIS registries and archived pages. But correctly channeled, these sites can capture the...
In the flood of online information, speed often wins over accuracy. Yet for investigators and analysts, rushing means risk. Fact-checking tools don’t replace human judgment—they sharpen it. The key is workflow: knowing how to verify information quickly without getting lost in tabs, speculation, or repetition. This article breaks...
Every digital interaction, whether it’s a follow, a mention, a shared post, or something else, adds a thread to the web of online relationships. Together, these threads form what analysts call a social graph—a network that maps how people, accounts, and organizations connect across social media platforms. In...
With so much of the world’s information living inside images—screenshots of messages, photos of documents, surveillance clips, and even social media posts with hidden location data—Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and computer vision have become cornerstones of modern intelligence work. And with the AI renaissance, the laborious manual...
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) has become a core pillar of modern investigations. Yet the success of a given case depends not only on the analyst’s skill but also on the strength and synergy of their tools. If the internet is an ocean of data, the right OSINT toolkit is the...
It has a notorious reputation to be sure. Yet the common perception of the Dark Web purely as an arena for nefarious enterprise overlooks the double-edge nature of the beast. While its mix of anonymity and obfuscation does indeed make it a haven for fraudsters peddling fentanyl, stolen creds, and...
