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) 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 →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction Every so often you'll come across a town so small that Google doesn't know where anything is. Or does it? Sometimes the information is there but we need to trick Google into giving us what we are looking for. That... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction A few days ago I came across a video on twitter that at first seemed fairly easy to geolocate. The tweet mentioned the name of the city where the incident was happening and the type of infrastructure affected. The footage... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction As someone that has been geolocation data from the Ukrainian-Russian war since late February, by now I thought I had seen it all.At the beginning most of the videos depicted Russian movements in Ukraine, slowly the footage started showing shelling... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction My previous blog entry was a geolocation of a group of pro-Russian Chechen's engaged in a ground battle in Mariupol, Ukraine. It seems that they either have been busy or enjoyed the overall attention they are getting because suddenly there... Continue Reading →
Sofia Santos | OSINT Analysis & Tutorials 