The echo’s of investors had started the buzz of the need for new investigative / intelligence platforms a great deal more than there had been in the past few years. The buzz will only gain more...
Fishing with a Subaru
There comes a time in some OSINT investigations where we have accurately identified our target’s profiles, lifestyle, and communication platforms, but we still aren’t quite to the point of...
ShadowDragon Podcast #07 - Matt Devost Interview | Disinformation Attacks Against Institutions of Trust, Turing Assessments for Datasets, Exploration of Red Teaming Innovation
Risk management strategies that work are hard to find in such a noisy infosec buzzword filled industry. Our guest Matt Devost, offers perspective on subjects which will be helpful for beginners,...
ShadowDragon Podcast #05 - Westward.AI,Incident Response, Long Time Investigations Need Story Telling & Innovation in Event Query Languages.
Incident Response and extended investigations need storytelling functionality. Westward.ai’s innovation in event query languages is discussed laced with candor, history, and strange hacker lore. The...
What Will OSINT/PAI and Collection at Scale Look like for 2020?
2020 will be eventful and likely one of the most historical years containing change, balancing the tension between change, conflict, and hopefully peace in a long time. When reflecting on the...
What’s in an email address?
A few weeks ago we went over an interesting way to pivot from breached data passwords to a target by virtue of the lazy way many people reuse the same passwords for multiple emails. In a very...
Bad moods = Bad decisions
As a developer and OSINT investigator, I often come across other investigators that are researching a target online and have “hit a wall,” so to speak. “I’ve hit a dead-end, I can’t figure anything...
Timeline Analysis | Epstein Death Reported on 4Chan Before Announced
In my last entitled Illuminating Context with Timeline Analysis, I gave a rough sketch of the basics. In this post I will share a few specifics. The primary point to drive home is there won’t ever...
Illuminating Context with Timeline Analysis
In our training courses, we push ideas and investigative methodology more than we push our tools. Tools will change, but proper investigative methods will not change. Asking the right questions will...
It’s Hard Out There for a Pimp
Human trafficking, according to Wikipedia, is the trade of humans for forced labour. With the advent of the internet and high-speed communication, traffickers have found a new way to advertise their...
Forget About Deep and Dark Web Hype
Everyone has a different use case that needs to be monitored, and we enable a vast amount of use cases for tailored collection and monitoring with OIMonitor at a very high scale and have been doing...
OSINT Challenges & Opportunities, Methodology on starting your Hunt.
Every investigation is different, but what never changes is how you have to treat an investigation much like the challenge of building something with a bucket of Legos. With each bread crumb, you...
Continued OSINT Collection Innovation for Expansive 24/7 Monitoring on Chat Platforms, Forums, and Social Media
Catching the backscatter of conversation, keywords and data dumps have always been one of the driving goals in our OIMonitor project. While others have been quick to highlight one particular...
Hype and the Deep Dark Web
I had previously written about how we started with our our monitoring platform and how that grew into the beast it is today. I didn’t leave much room to frame things in the most hip-infosec way,...
DEF CON 26 Intel CTF Results! Congratulations to the DEF CON iCTF Winners
DEF CON 26, Intel CTF (iCTF) had more participants than any other capture the flag challenge. With over 100 teams showing up, a select few escalated to the top of the heap showing off their skills,...
Investigator Methodology | Strategic & Tactical Vs. a Hopeful Change
If the world has a plethora of investigators and the success of prosecutors is hovering around 90% success rate — why do we struggle with an increase in more complex crime, a rise in international...