Hey! My experience is in anti-money laundering solutions where I worked as a researcher. This involved quite a lot of data analysis so I'm proficient in Python and basic SQL. I've worked on an R&D team where I help develop OSINT tools, although this experience is mainly related to planning projects.

My issue is that I don't really know what I can offer companies, I feel that I'm not really an expert. I'm neither a developer nor an investigator. Rather, I'm somewhere in between.

I really want to expand my experience and gain some investigative experience and also data experience.

My ideal is getting to the point where I can work as a consultant on projects.

How would you reach out to companies in the data, journalism, and OSINT space and ask to work pro bono in return for experience?

Anyone know of a great resource that shares threat intelligence on darknet forums?

I believe I’m decent enough at this to make some money doing it. But I don’t know how I would go about starting to do that. Does anyone have any advice?

Hello everybody,

I have a question. Is there a technique or method that allows me to find out which groups or pages are administered by a specific Facebook account or user? Thanks!

Found some closed source database through google but no open databases. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks

Hello,

I'm trying to identify insider wallets of different Solana tokens. I am following a certain Twitter account that might be involved in insider trading of multiple memecoins. I want to identify his wallets or some of the wallets that were very early in those certain tokens.

So the data I have is just: tokens launched and the date of launch.

I need to crossreferrence all the holders of several memes (or other chain information) to see which ones are common. But Solscan only lets me download as CSV the first 1000 txn of holders. That's not enough. The volumes are highly manipulated and there are a lot of MEV bots. Could not find a way to sort holders by % of token held or by date of buy.

Any tools that might get the job done. The bottlneck is the data export capped to 1000 txn. I'd manage to do the rest in Excel, altough an automated tool or sowftware would be great.

Thank you.

Hello! I am really interested in switching careers from human services to a career that uses OSINT. As a former missing person, I feel really connected and called to this field.

My ultimate goal is to get a 100% remote job that uses OSINT and helps fight crime. I am notably interested in missing persons and human trafficking investigations, but am open to any type of crime… but I am bad at math so maybe not financial?

I have a few questions that would mean the world to me to have answered.

• So as I stated, my long term goal is a job where I can use OSINT and work 100% remotely. Would the following jobs meet that description.. I asked AI and was told: cybercrime investigator, digital forensics, private investigator, legal researcher, criminal research analyst, and online investigator. Just verifying this is true?

• I am in the UK and the police stations here offer a two year detective degree. Would this degree help me with my ultimate goal. https://www.joiningthepolice.co.uk/application-process/ ways-in-to-policing/detective-degree-holder-entry I know that police work typically isn’t remote so it would be of course a longer term goal to be hired by a different company to work remote

• is there an alternative to osint where it's more so analyzing the information as opposed to trying to find it? I am absolutely terrible at math so do all of these require math analysis?

• would a masters in intelligence/cybercrime be a good route?

Thank you!

Their pricing model is not feasible for me as an individual investigation journalist. I am mainly interested in personal information, linking emails to phone numbers and userhandles and so. Any clue that could lead me to my future protagonist or person of interest regarding my journalism. I'm Mostly focused on european topics and persons. Please share me your recommendations below. Darknet sources are also welcome.

Ive had inconsistent results with google dorking tiktok usernames and looking for comments. I'm using variants of site:tiktok.com and "username". With my own username, I find my profile page only and no comments (but Ive made plenty of public comments). When searching other public usernames, I see no comments nor even their profile page. But on more popular accounts, I find their comments and activity. This is with google and duckduckgo on firefox, chrome.

Are there better search engines or tools for this? Anyone have success with tiktok?

Hello,

Has anyone here taken the OSINT cert offered by McMaster University in Canada? If so, would you recommend it? Thank you.

I’m currently working on a project that will attempt to create a platform for investigating cases in a manner more akin to a strategy game. People can enjoy the experience without the inherent association that OSINT has with work.

This is a truly vague question, and my apologies for not having a specific inquiry. I would love to know what tools you would use given the goal or if it’s even achievable due to OSINT usually not being built for this type of innovation.

Has anyone here taken the Dark Web & Cybercrime Investigations course by John Hammond? I’m considering buying it but wanted to see if it’s actually worth the price.

How well does it cover OPSEC, anonymity, and general dark web navigation? Or is it more surface-level? Also, are there better resources out there that give a solid intro to these topics? I'm particularly interested in practical applications rather than just theory.

Would love to hear from anyone who has gone through the course or has recommendations for better alternatives! Thanks in advance.

Hey everyone,

In my work in the news field, I often need to monitor multiple angles of live broadcasts—events like inaugurations, breaking news, or protests. I couldn’t find a tool that fit my needs, so I made one myself: StreamGrid.

StreamGrid lets you:

• 🎥 Watch multiple streams in a fully customizable grid.
• 🖱️ Drag & drop to rearrange or resize streams in real time.
• 💾 Save your layouts and share them with others.
• 🌐 Support M3U8 streams, live feeds, and even pre-recorded content.

It’s cross-platform and free to use! I made it because I needed it for my work, but I figured it might be helpful to others in OSINT or similar fields.

If you're interested, you can check it out here: StreamGrid on GitHub.

I’d love any feedback or suggestions for improvement!

I recently got interested in OSINT, especially for finding missing persons. Tutorials that i could find focused solely on tools and techniques to gather information, but i don't see any specific analysis of the gathered information and the conclusions that could be made.

For example, using OSINT to find target's social media is heavily covered, but very few teaches on what specifically we should look for to gather specific information in that social media. (Example: Noticing specific patterns or connecting seemingly unrelated thing on their posts)

For me personally, it is kind of "boring" (newbie perspective) to focus on "hacking" or information gathering tools. My interest is more on the analysis on the gathered information and what to conclude. Is OSINT not the right framework for me? Should i look for other intelligence type?

Thank you!

Like when I put a brand new SIM card in my S24 android phone, running standard google services.. etc. If authorities were to look to identify who is using this phone number, how closely would they be able to pinpoint my location? I know that that it depends on my position relative to mobile towers where my position can be triangulated.

Besides this way of identifying me is there some other way google services or some other shit on my phone collect information which can identify / locate me?

I've heard these services can keep records of devices / MAC addresses that appear most often when wifi/bluetooth is active which creates another avenue where my location can be determined.

Does anyone have any tips/tools for searching truth social by username and keyword? I'm a journalist hoping to save a little time on some research....

Hi,

I'd like to identify some military aircrafts from google map, however it's kinda hard because I am not a specialist. I'd like to know if there was a website or database similar to https://warsearcher.com/shipsearcher/ but for aircrafts (warsearcher is for ships), where I have examples of what are common aircrafts for each countries, with some image examples ?

Thank you

Does anyone have experience in Israeli-specific investigations? It's for a probate matter.

There's OSINT Tools Israel on Github, and can you guys recommend any other sources I could try? Tips, tricks... anything. I can provide a little more info if need be.

Thanks guys.

Sweden faces a growing crime epidemic and public access to detailed crime data remains limited despite extensive media coverage, particularly of gang violence.

I'm exploring how crawling crime & court related posts on public forums can help us map crime and criminals. (While having fun learning go & colly)

Has anyone attempted something similar and what do you think could be an interesting outcome from crawling an online forum where there is a lot of noise in the data?

Code/data: https://github.com/AlbinTouma/Signal-Sifter
Project: https://albin-touma.kit.com/posts/looking-for-trouble

As of a few weeks ago Spydialer blocks out the name of the owner of any phone number I search. Did something change?

Is there a similar free tool to use instead for reverse phone number lookups?

I’m an experienced financial crime investigator (10 years in banking/brokerage) focusing mostly on AML and some fraud. I think I have a decent set of skills just from my experience but really hoping to take it up a notch. I’ve added industry certifications but never thought to go this route.

Any tips, training, certifications that might be helpful from a FinCrime perspective? Considering shifting into a law enforcement-adjacent type of investigator role so something of that nature would be helpful as well.

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Hi guys,

A small pleasure boat, or what's left of it, was abandoned on the street near my house here in the Balearic Islands, Spain. The local police is struggling finding out what country the id number (69609-A) on the hull is from. Thought maybe someone knows how to help. Thanks in advance.

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Hi All - I know a 'Michael Jackson', so if I wanted to do a search on him, I will obviously get thousands of hits for the deceased pop star. How do I word the search operators and terms to exclude the pop star results? These selectors, "-"famous singer" and "NOT the celebrity singer" don't work and I still get mostly the pop star results!

So I been working on a blog. In this scenario all you have is the Ip address (not the real one). but the one from VPN. I am looking for ways to identity the real IP. This is just for educational purpose. so all you have been given is in IP address. How do you guys procced from this to collect the data about the user or to find its real IP.

Hi all! Working on a datascience project. Do you all know of any good tools for aggregating twitter data? I'd like to webscrape a window of time, pulling down posts with specific keywords or hashtags (or potentially just capturing all posts in a specific window, but I know that could be difficult in terms of storage.)
I'm looking for a free resource. Have any of you seen an open source tool or github page or tutorial that goes through this?
I'm aware that Twitter's new terms of service prohibits this, but a recent court case ruled that someone is only bound by the terms of service if you're using an account. So this would be web scraping information that is visible without an account.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks in advance.