(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 The ability to find localised information is extremely important when carrying out live investigations. Often in my workday as an OSINT analyst I am tasked with finding data on ongoing events to help gather more evidence about what happened. This... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction Part of any OSINT investigation is finding reliable data that can be analysed and verified in order to end up on a report that, later on, can be disseminated into the wider public. As a member of a big team... 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 →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction With the arrival of Kadyrov's men in Ukraine I was bound to spot some footage of them to geolocate any time soon. Today was the day. And Mariupol was the place.Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya, who last week (March... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction On March 10, 2022, I came across a concerning video that had been shared on Facebook earlier that day. In his post, the author implies that the video depicts a market in a village in Afghanistan where people were selling... Continue Reading →
Sofia Santos | OSINT Analysis & Tutorials 