A new Unfurl release (unfurl.link) is here! v2025.08 has: 🆔 Parsing more from TikTok IDs (millisecond timestamp, entity type (user account, device, live session, or video), and more). Thanks to Benjamin Steel for the paper arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279 📝 Full release notes: github.com/obsidianfore...

This story is absolutely insane. And we don't usually get a front-row seat to insider threat investigations Spy got tricked by a honeypot and implicated the most senior leaders at the victim's biggest competitors. I go through it all here: youtu.be/tDG1WfbSZFo

Unfurl v2025.03 is live and adds new features, including: 🔎 Parsing #Google Search's UDM parameter 🐘 Recognizing #Mastodon usernames and parsing forks (like truthsocial[.]com and gab[.]com) 🧹 Utility parser to "clean up" inputs Try it: unfurl.link Blog post: dfir.blog/unfurl-parse... #DFIR #OSINT

There's a new Hindsight release! Hindsight v2025.03 focuses on Extensions - parsing more activity and state records, highlighting Extension permissions, and making it easier to examine Manifests. 🌐 Blog: dfir.blog/hindsight-pa... 🛠️ Tool download: hindsig.ht/release #DFIR #Chrome #Extensions

A new Unfurl release is here! v2025.02 adds: 🌐 Parsing encoded/obfuscated IP addresses 🦋 Resolving #Bluesky handles to their identifiers (DIDs) and looking up their creation timestamps 🐛 Bug fixes & better bulk parsing Blog: dfir.blog/unfurl-parse... Code: github.com/obsidianfore... #DFIR #OSINT

Want to break down what is in a URL? Try Unfurl from Ryan Benson and gain further insights! dfir.blog/unfurl/ #DFIR

Over the winter holiday, I was watching Netflix's Carry-On and got a bit nerd-sniped by a real Google Search URL on-screen... and then proceeded to "authenticate" it. dfir.blog/authenticati... #DFIR #OSINT #Unfurl #Netflix

The Raiders can’t even be good at being bad…

CTFs present challenges that you likely haven’t seen before. I’ve taken away new skills from every CTF I’ve ever participated in.

A new episode is live now of @dfnpodcast.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/4H9TLL8...

Since I'm trying out #Bluesky, I figured I should add in support for it in Unfurl! The v2024.11.20 release has some minor updates, but the biggest feature is the ability to parse a timestamp from Bluesky post IDs (or atproto TIDs). Example: dfir.blog/unfurl/?url=... Give it a try at unfurl.link!

New Timesketch release is out. Two highlights: - Unfurl [1] integration, get information from URLs directly in your timeline. - DFIQ [2] support with context aware SearchHistory. Changelog: timesketch.org/changelog/#v... [1] dfiq.org [2] dfir.blog/introducing-...

Oh hi everyone! I've missed what #DFIR Twitter used to be - here's to hoping we can get something similar going here!