Every day I write about #osint (Open Source Intelligence) tools and techniques. Also little bit about forensics and cybersecurity in general. Work in https://t.me/netlas
Digital Forensic StartMe page
- getting started guides
- VM/distros
- decoding tools
- mobile forensics
- network analysis
- metadata tools
- SANS posters/cheatsheets
https://start.me/p/m60j2v/digital-forensics
#dfir
Many people's childhood memories contain songs, cartoons, films and games that they can't find.
If you're one of those, use Lost Media's search tools.
lostmediawiki.com
lostmediaarchive.fandom.com
GPT yeschat.ai/gpts-9t557fhppTl-Lost-Media
Search operator site:reddit.com/r/lostmedia/
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Читать полностью…Cloud Service Providers Free Tier Overview
A large list of companies providing free, partially free or free in a trial period VPS, website hosting and other cloud services.
https://github.com/cloudcommunity/Cloud-Free-Tier-Comparison
#linux #osintautomation
URLFINDER
#go URL discovery tool:
- different sources (alienvault,commoncrawl etc)
- filter by extensions/regex
- very fast (122000+ URLs in 30 sec):
https://github.com/projectdiscovery/urlfinder
Creator x.com/pdnuclei
#osint #cybersecurity #bugbounty
Marginaila Search
Open source search engine. No ads, no AI. "Indexing the small, old and weird web"(c) Search blogs, forums, plain text sites and more.
marginalia-search.com
Awesome Search Engines for Cybersecurity Researchers
https://github.com/onhexgroup/Awesome-Search-Engines-for-Cybersecurity-Researchers
Contributor x.com/onhexgroup
#osint #socmint
DIGITAL FORENSICS GUIDE
Long and detailed guide for beginners:
- Digital Forensics Tools, Libraries, and Frameworks
- Virtualization
- File systems
- Security Tools and Frameworks
- Networking
https://github.com/mikeroyal/Digital-Forensics-Guide
Contributor x.com/MikeR256
#dfir
You've probably seen the link to Dark Web Searching Guide by Chris Poulter (x.com/osintcombine) many times before
It was written in 2020, but was updated by the author last month and is now more relevant.
https://www.osintcombine.com/post/dark-web-searching
#osint #darknet
FilePhish
Free online query builder for searching sensitive data files on a target domain in different search engines.
https://greylensresearch.github.io/filephish/
#osint #googledorks
Namus Missing Persons Search
Database of missing, unidentified and unclaimed persons with a lot of advanced search filters (USA🇺🇸):
- age/ethnicity
- case created/last contact date
- hair/eye color
- clothing and accessories
- piercing/tattoo
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Search
BEST #OSINT Books
List by x.com/OsintTeamBlog:
- digital Investigations
- cybersecurity
- investigative journalism
- OPSEC
- sourcing
- national security
- intelligence mindset
https://osintteam.com/books/
🇬🇧UK companies with hidden ownership
Worldwide interactive map of 65,000 UK companies that unlawfully hiding their beneficial owner (with detailed information about each company and displaying the links between companies).
https://taxpolicy.org.uk/wp-content/assets/pscs_map_v3.html
Creator x.com/DanNeidle
Holehe Web
Self-hosted UI for Holehe (a tool to check which sites your email is registered on from x.com/palenath).
https://github.com/sds-osint/holehe-web
Creator x.com/sds_osint
#osint #socmint #python
DEEP FACE UI
Self-hosted tool for analysing and comparing face photos. Does not require API keys.
x.com/GONZOs_int published it on Github just yesterday and feel free to write him about any issues.
https://github.com/GONZOsint/deepfaceui
#python #osint
DeepSite
A free Hugging Face space that generates web apps with UI by text description using DeepSeek.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/enzostvs/deepsite
Google Dorks Cheat Sheet for Hidden Paths & Exposed Files
- ASP NET configuration files
- open directory listings
- Apache password files
- SVN version control directories
- open error log file
and more.
https://github.com/sudosu01/-Google-Dorks-Cheat-Sheet-for-Hidden-Paths-Exposed-Files
Contributor x.com/sudosu01
Awesome #Cybersecurity Datasets
- URLs & Domain Names
- Network traffic
- Malware
- WebApps
- Email
- Passwords
- Honeypots
and more.
https://github.com/shramos/Awesome-Cybersecurity-Datasets
AI Research Pilot
A free online tool that automatically generates prompts for 17 types of researches for different AI assistants (Perplexity, ChatGPT, You, Gemini, Mistral AI etc).
https://digitaldigging.org/research/
Creator x.com/henkvaness
#osint #socmint
UNCOVER
#go tool to automate IP address search in different search engines:
Shodan
Netlas
Fofa
Censys
Quake
Hunter
Zoomeye
Publicwww
Criminalip
Hunterhow
Google
Odin
Binaryedge
Creator x.com/pdnuclei
https://github.com/projectdiscovery/uncover
Library of Leaks
Search by keyword (full name, email, company) in leaked documents, emails, tables, images and other files.
29M+ public entities.
https://search.libraryofleaks.org/
Facebook Search Tool
If you don't have a Facebook profile, you can still view profiles (unless their owners have disallowed it in their settings, which isn't often). To search for profiles, you can use special tools to generate advanced Google searches using site:facebook.com.
https://www.osintcanada.com/desktop-tools/facebook
(note that there are many other tools on this site as well)
By Mark Fenton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanintel/) OSINT Canada
#osint #socmint
Telegram Post Downloader
#Python tool to download posts from multiple telegram feeds (you can set a range of publish dates) and analyse them using LLM.
https://github.com/Ironship/TelegramOSINTPolo
Do not use important tg accounts to obtain API keys (risk of blocking)
Crime Mapper
Cyber crime mapping tool. Import IOCs, data enrichment from API (Shodan, InternetDB, Google DNS), import and export to JSON. Self-hosted (https://github.com/mr-r3b00t/crime-mapper) or online demo (https://mr-r3b00t.github.io/crime-mapper/)
This alpha version. Feel free to write about problems to the creator x.com/UK_Daniel_Card
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https://cybdetective.substack.com/
If you don't have the time and energy to read long books, еry the super short and free #osint automation courses for beginners (each for 1 hour of reading):
Python for OSINT
https://github.com/cipher387/python-for-OSINT-21-days
Linux for OSINT
https://github.com/cipher387/linux-for-OSINT-21-day/
DISCORD OSINT
Tools and websites
Discord server search engines
Discord bots search engine
Miscellaneous
Discord Exploits/Pentesting
Discord Search syntax
Google Search queries & Dorks
https://github.com/thepseudonym/DiscordOSINT
#osint #socmint
OWLARCH
Linux VM (based on Arch Linux) for Reverse Engineering, Malware Analysis, Network Analysis and #OSINT.
https://github.com/Leku2020/OwlArch
#linux #vm
HANDLEHAWK
By nickname, collects profile information across multiple platforms:
Bluesky
Mastodon
Nostr
TruthSocial
Reddit
Snapchat
Twitter (via optional RapidAPI)
https://github.com/C3n7ral051nt4g3ncy/HandleHawk
Creator x.com/OSINT_Tactical
#socmint
OSINT USA
Criminal records
Government records
Bussines entity search
Charites/non-profit search
People search
Radio signals
and more.
https://start.me/p/GEQXv7/osint-us
#osint #socmint