#BurkinaFaso Geolocations of the JNIM attack on Tanwalbougou (12.0554, 0.7805) by @chrisadayton.bsky.social & @ influhunter (on X)

14.06 #Mali According to a government communique, while returning from a mission yesterday (presumably taking part in the airstrike against FLA fighters near Aguelhok) the Su-24 was forced to ditch in the Niger river near Gao due to "adverse atmospheric conditions"

Cool open-source investigative tool I just learned about: alltext.nyc. It lets you search any text found in Google Street View images from 2007 to 2024— graffiti, shop signs, street text, you name it. Just type in what you see, and see what pops up.

ICYMI: on Twitter, an OSINTer ('Vleckie') is being blamed for a US airstrike in Yemen that killed 8 civilians. in a thread, she'd marked a group of houses as an underground bunker — from satellite imagery alone. those houses (not a bunker) were subject to a US airstrike. 8 innocent people dead.

"These are the first two fighter jets in history to be downed by an uncrewed surface drone, but they are unlikely to be the last."

🇲🇱🇷🇺 A Wagner affiliated Telegram channel posted this awkward photoshop yesterday, saying the people in the picture support LGBT rights, identifying them as "Azawad shepherds". Let's take this as an occasion to learn how to find the context of a doctored picture and prove the trickery 🧵⬇️ #Wagner #Mali

In this upcoming GIJN webinar, we’ll explore how investigative journalists can document human rights abuses in war zones, with a focus on methods to ensure the info gathered can later be used by legal investigators or international courts. Register now: https://twp.ai/9PQx3o

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

BREAKING. From a reliable source. MITRE support for the CVE program is due to expire tomorrow. The attached letter was sent out to CVE Board Members.

New blogpost about a military convoy (100+ containers) in #Mali. #OSINT #Geolocation #FAMAs #AfricaCorps #WagnerPMC

The 27th of March, the Telegram channel White Uncles in Africa shared the following video of containers moving through Bamako. Let's take a look at what we can gather 🧵⬇️

Affaire des assistants : Marine Le Pen condamnée et inéligible. Une affaire révélée dès 2013-2014 par @mediapart.fr. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

In Viktor Orbán's Hungary you're perfectly OK organizing neo-Nazi concerts over and over again, even if you're part of a group banned/designated as a terror group in multiple countries But Pride, let alone protesting a Pride crackdown as an opposition party, gets you banned.

We’re back with the Bellingcat Open Source Research Challenge! Starting today, we’ll release a series of five brand new challenges to test your digital investigative skills every month. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

French security firm LEXFO has published a report that analyzes the underground world of document forgers. Most of this ecosystem appears to have moved from the dark web to the clear web—for some reason blog.lexfo.fr/the-business...

According to their Telegram channel, Africa Corps (Африканский Корпус) is opening new "selection points" (forgive the dodgy Google Translate output) in Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhny Novgorod and Krasnodar. Interestingly enough, the amount of money promised for signing up depends on the place.

New from Bellingcat's environmental team - The Hunt for Malaysia's Elusive Wildlife Trafficker www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...

Incredible referencing guide for Google StreetView, and therefore for geolocation in general: license plates, sign posts, types of bollards, roof tiles, etc. Thanks @aric.bsky.social for sharing. plonkit.net/guide

Go checkout this amazing and beginner friendly webinar by @gijn.org to learn how to source satellite images and how to use them.

Adverts selling an opioid up to 500 times stronger than heroin are all over the internet, from social media platforms to trade sites. Bellingcat and partner Postimees investigate how this deadly drug is infiltrating Europe and beyond… www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/01...

Time for an small OSINT investigation before the weekend. Click on this thread for a walkthrough. Spoilers ahead 🧵⬇️🦒

Time for an small OSINT investigation before the weekend. Click on this thread for a walkthrough. Spoilers ahead 🧵⬇️🦒

🕵️ OSINT Exercise #031 is out! 🌡️Level: Beginners: Easy; Experts: Easy. ⏰Solution with full walkthrough will be uploaded to YouTube in the weekend. 🙊Have fun and no spoilers! #osintchallenge gralhix.com/osint-exerci...

The latest issue of The #OSINT Newsletter is now live. Using Raw Audio for OSINT (Geolocation) Plus the latest news, tools, tactics, and techniques. H/T: @cybdetective.bsky.social and more... osintnewsletter.com/p/62

Here's my write-up of the 3rd week of #OSINT challenges from @bellingcat.com: Urban Exploration. On the menu: dumpster based geolocation, baseball investigation and using a reflection to locate a bridge! medium.com/@shibaosint/... #Bellingcat #Geolocation #Writeup #OverpassTurbo #OSM

I finished writing about week #2 of the @bellingcat.com challenges: Maritime Mysteries It touches on synoptic codes from a Russian ship, identifying a vessel from a picture and checking if an image was digitally altered! #OSINT #Bellingcat #Geolocation #Writeup

The Russian Navy is significantly weakened in the Mediterranean. The Improved Kilo Class submarine Novorossiysk (B-61) has just left, leaving no Russian submarines in the Mediterranean 🇷🇺🇸🇾 Story by @covertshores.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

I finished writing about week #2 of the @bellingcat.com challenges: Maritime Mysteries It touches on synoptic codes from a Russian ship, identifying a vessel from a picture and checking if an image was digitally altered! #OSINT #Bellingcat #Geolocation #Writeup

🧵The Ursa Major was heading to Vladivostok and not en route to aid in the evacuation of Tartus. Given cargo it carried, this is in fact even worse for Russia than if it had been heading to Tartus.

Bellingcat Globetrotters Writeups Detailed descriptions of Bellingcat challenges (challenge.bellingcat.com) solutions from @shibasec.bsky.social: #1 — A Sticky Situation #2 — Flamin-Go Find It! #3 — Pulling Focus #4 — The Rider's View #5 — Lost in the Fog medium.com/@shibaosint/... #geoint

Did you solve the OSINT challenges from Bellingcat yet? Here is my writeup for the first week: medium.com/@shibasec_35... #OSINT #Bellingcat #Geolocation #writeup

Find That Spot A tool that allows to search the map for objects that match a text description. Based on OverPass Turbo, but does not require knowledge of query language, works faster and with large areas. findthatspot.io Creator @tlmn.bsky.social #osint #geoint

New: Cellebrite is being used as doorway to install malware. Amnesty finds multiple cases where police used Cellebrite to unlock phone; cops then used that access to infect with spyware which takes screenshots, turns on mic, etc, give phone back to target. In Serbia www.404media.co/cellebrite-u...

🚨Our new paper is on arXiv! We’re excited to share 26 state-backed information operation (IO) datasets, each paired with a robust control set of 13M+ posts in total from non-IO accounts. You can reach the dataset here: zenodo.org/records/1418...

Challenges from @bellingcat.com going well so far! I'll do a writeup later this week (after verifying it's allowed). Thanks to @nitishchandan.bsky.social for the help! Try it for yourself at challenge.bellingcat.com

Evidence of IDF beyond edge of buffer zone in Syria. This photo captured about 0.7kms into #Syria, approx 32.996983, 35.884601. Source: x.com/ytirawi/stat... IDF have since confirmed its troops are operating beyond the demilitarised buffer zone in the Golan Heights: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...

💡DDoS Secrets released Library of Leaks; Search documents, companies, and people: search.libraryofleaks.org

Have you ever wondered how investigative journalist take advantage of Maltego and open source data? Be sure to check out tomorrow's webinar with @reflets.info , @kitetoa.reflets.info and Shaman for a presentation of their Pappers.fr Transforms! www.maltego.com/event-regist...

Finally, after years of searching, an old #geolocation challenge by X user CountryTec was solved last week. Thanks to @fstegers.bsky.social and the awesome hint provided by X user FlowAddicted! Read about the long journey to the solution here: sector035.nl/articles/lak...

I did a session for @icfjorg.bsky.social last month about how open source investigative techniques can aid reporters. ICFJ have very kindly produced a short write up and listed some useful tools ijnet.org/en/story/fun...

hard to exaggerate how nuts the engagement is on Bluesky compared to 𝕏. a vastly smaller user base (at least officially), but just look at these stats for one of the biggest newspapers on Earth. Musk has absolutely trashed the platform. folks, you are not locked in on 𝕏. not even a little.

Now that I'm more active on Bsky, here's the article I wrote about Sofia Santos's OSINT exercise 26⏬⏬⏬ medium.com/@shibasec_35...

REVELATIONS. A Central African journalist, Ephrem Yalike, reveals the dark secrets of Russian disinformation campaigns. He was a part of it. Now, he’s risking his life to expose the truth. #PropagandaMachine forbiddenstories.org/in-the-centr...