OSINT Recap' #20

What's up in OSINT ?

This month discover how generative AI shapes the evolution of 
ransomware tactics, follow the investigation of a bot network shaping public opinion and try out a Tesla mapping tool.

News

Generative AI Fuels a New Wave of Ransomware Evolution
As cybercrime escalates globally, generative AI tools are transforming ransomware tactics and lowering the technical threshold needed to use them. Read more...

Stop calling it OSINT
Nico Dekens' take is clear most people doing OSINT aren't doing OSINT. His latest blog post goes into bad habits observed amont OSINT practitioners Read more...

Methods & Write up

'10 septembre' : 50 shades of anti-establishment anger
Thierry Herrant canducts an analysis of the online mobilisation behind the '10 septembre' movement and explores the hypothesis of astroturfing. Read more...

How we found the people behind a bot network
In this walkthough, Benjamin Strick and his team discovered how a Jakarta-based marketing firm ran an influence operation about the conflict in West Papua. Watch now...

Stealth Web Scraping Techniques for OSINT
This video explores stealth web scraping techniques that mimic human behavior to by-pass anti-bot technologies. Watch now...

Tools

TeslaMap
This map shows the recent location of Tesla cars exposed by the faulty deployment of the TeslaMate software. Try now...

Events