Introduction Every so often people approach me to help them with something OSINT related, either finding data, analysing something, or geolocating images or footage of an event. These type of requests have previously led me to go down some amazing rabbit holes so I am always happy to help. Occasionally, if the information is not... Continue Reading →
Introduction Occasionally you will come across videos that will tell you exactly where they were filmed. You'll get excited thinking that geolocating it will be extremely fast and easy. You jump to Google Maps, write the name of the village and nothing. Google has no idea what you mean. You try another similar word. Maybe... Continue Reading →
Introduction Open source data is all around us and there are endless ways to take advantage of it. Whilst there are many people working in OSINT who track down individuals, organisations, and/or locations, I do a wider version of that. My job involves monitoring, analysing and investigating conflict between countries, organised groups and/or civilians. For... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Warning: Please be aware that, as the title indicate, this blog entry will cover the topic of torture. The focus will be on the geolocation of the building but I felt a warning was necessary. I will share a photo of... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction Occasionally you will come across some video online that catches your attention and suddenly you want to know more about it. It happened today (September 17, 2022) as I spotted a reddit post sharing a 1-minute video claiming to depict... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction So far I have been focused on writing about geolocations in Ukraine, which tend to not be too hard. I wanted to show how different things can be when there is no recent satellite imagery, google streetview, or local business... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction Every so often people reach out to me online and ask for help with something OSINT/GEOINT related. I am always happy to help, especially because it often ends up with me learning something new along the way. Recently I was... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) One of my OSINT reports entitled "Deported Civilians: How civilians are illegally deported to Russia" was published at the Centre for Information Resilience website amongst many other brilliant pieces of work from my colleagues. I spent weeks (months!) collecting and analysing... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction With an overall increase in people's interest in OSINT either as a tool to fight disinformation, part of the reconnaissance phase of ethical hacking, or as an aid in the investigation of possible war crimes, we have come to witness... Continue Reading →
Sofia Santos | OSINT Analysis & Tutorials 