Level 3 OSINT: Open-Source Intelligence

Explore Fawkes, a Sand Labs tool that cloaks images by subtle alterations to foil reverse image searches, while the original remains visually similar.

Learn how to build and manage sock puppets for osint investigations, including creating fake identities with ai photos, vpn, prepaid phones, and staged social media histories.

Demonstrate how canary tokens collect data such as IP address, device, and browser, and show how editing canary token metadata with a metadata scrubber removes identifying information.

Belief powerfully shapes thoughts and actions; understanding a person's beliefs helps predict behavior, trust, and where they seek information, guiding empathetic, nonjudgmental analysis of groups and individuals.

Explore how QAnon and conspiracy groups form, why people believe them, and how OSINT investigators gather, validate media, locations, timestamps, and connections while remaining unbiased.

Explore hate and extremist groups, their motivations, and why people follow them, using reconnaissance techniques like geofence searches on X and safety measures such as VPN and sandboxing.

Explore how hacking groups operate, from hacktivists like Anonymous to state-sponsored entities like Lazarus Group and APT 28, and learn research steps, tools, and safety practices.

Explore the SPL Center hate map to track hate crimes and anti-government groups in the United States, filter by year, state, and ideology, and view group activity from 2000–2023.

Explore VineLink US, an open-source intelligence tool to search offender registrations by state or name, view custody details, photos, and notifications for investigations.

Explore distraction techniques used to divert attention from real goals, with examples like a distributed denial of service attack, a dumpster fire, and phishing attacks.

Use cyber scan io for open-source intelligence to scan websites, view security headers, vulnerabilities, screenshots, DNS data, and links, with careful attention to legality and permission.

Explore map checking for crowd size estimation by delimiting areas, calculating crowd density in square meters, and generating rough headcounts for events like rallies, protests, and concerts.

Explore the Wayback Machine in the Internet Archive to access archived telegram channels and other collections, enabling analysis of Donald Trump tweets, QAnon posts, covid content, and political topics.

Discover Genes Reunited UK as a UK genealogy search tool for locating births, marriages, census records, and relatives, with forename and surname search options and a free trial.

Explore the National Archives as a free, comprehensive research resource for American history, military records, ancestry, and online exhibits, using JFK assassination records as an example.

Explore DNSDumpster to perform a DNS dump and gather DNS information for reconnaissance on a website, including IP address, ASN, and MX, NS, and TXT records.

Learn to assess a website's age by checking who registered it, when it was registered, and expiry, and use tools like website age to spot suspicious domains involved in phishing.

Explore Google dorks with a bug bounty dork generator to streamline OSINT, pentesting, and domain investigations by generating targeted admin login and sensitive file search dorks.

Delve into level 3 osint and open-source intelligence techniques with a focus on lambda.blackosint, exploring core principles and practical applications.

Explore mufeawy.com, a MegaNZ search engine that reveals file details and credits, and seerx.space, a private, metadata-driven search engine for MegaNZ content and more.

Explore Beenverified's flexible searches for US targets—people, phone, email, domain, and more—using high confidence data filters, fraud scores, and data breach checks.

Explore the osint ui toolset, including username analyzer, email analyzer, phone analyzer, domain analyzer, port scanner, and reputation checker, and learn how to verify results across sources.

Explore the AI-based geolocation tool GSP and compare its free and paid versions. Upload photos, add prompts, and verify results with maps while staying within the law and ethics.

Explore the Ubikron Chrome extension for open-source investigations, capturing web pages with screenshots, timestamps, and tags, and managing data via private server options.

Explore the iHunt intelligence framework, a web-based osint toolkit that aggregates free resources for geoint and humint, with email header analysis and crime and tweet maps.

Explore Bluesky's trending topics page to identify the top ten posts that refresh every 30 minutes, along with current hashtags and phrases from the last 30 minutes.

Explore offshore leaks and offshore accounts using the offshoreleaks.icij.org database. See how offshore connections link people and companies across the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, and Pandora Papers.

Explore the beta user search tool in user search II, log in with Google, perform username, email, or vehicle lookups, view profiles and graphs, and verify results.

Explore Dumpor, a no-login tool for viewing Instagram profiles and metrics, including followers, posts, and stories, by searching by location, tag, or profile for open-source intelligence.

Explore Violation Tracker Global, a global tracker for corporate violations, where you can search by company, view penalties and jurisdictions, and export results as csv or xml.

Learn to locate Telegram groups for data breaches and hacking using Group Telegram, filtering by category, country, and language, then review group details and join safely.

Learn to use the d saver chrome extension to export discord member data—username, discriminator, nickname, display name, avatar, and status—in JSON, CSV, or Excel formats for investigations, with admin permissions.

Learn to document open source intelligence on spear phishing, including collecting emails, headers, links, and domain data, and assemble a structured, evidence-based report.

Graph and log evidence with simple charts in Excel, OpenOffice, or on paper to organize findings, reduce bias, and support open-source intelligence investigations with weights, timestamps, notes, and links.

Document and sign off on each evidence transfer to maintain chain of custody and evidence integrity in OSINT investigations. Have peers validate data and produce a signed final report.

Explore the Deep Dork tool for open-source intelligence by learning how to run Google dork queries, search domains, and locate shared documents on Google Docs or files on OneDrive.

Explore DuckDuckGo's advanced search operators—such as site:, intitle:, inurl:, and file type—and learn plus and minus refinements to conduct privacy‑focused open‑source intelligence searches.

Explore neuro-linguistic programming as body language linking verbal and nonverbal cues to thoughts, with eye and sensory signals aiding rapport, social engineering, OSINT, and court considerations; science is debated.

Explore the disc personality test developed by William Moulton Marston, covering dominance, influence, steadiness, and consciousness, and see how self-assessment and profiling improve communication in interviews.

Explore soc radar dark web scanners, compare freemium and paid plans, and leverage threat hunting, vulnerability intelligence, and breach data to protect organizations.

Explore gray noise with the Greynoise search engine at noise.io, filtering by IPs, last seen, classification, and tags to inspect malicious activity across top countries.

Explore Haystack, Amaya, dark search engine, Tor Dex, grams, and drug hub for open source intelligence on the dark web, while maintaining anonymity with Tor, VPN, and DNS leak checks.

Explore dark web sites with proper isolation using a VM or Tor, examining safety, opsec, and escrow in marketplaces while reviewing sites like Ninja Box, Dread, Enchant, and Dark Tube.

Explore the Dark Web Daily Live as a practical OSINT resource that tracks online status of markets and forums, using Tor browser, online/offline indicators, and captchas to verify accessible links.

Explore Vorm web, a flexible dark web tool usable in any browser for osint investigations. Identify color codes for urls, language options, and a privacy policy aligned with gdpr.

Explore meta OSINT on GitHub, a search tool that breaks disinformation and fact-checking links by category, highlighting sites like Snopes, PolitiFact, and Hoaxy.

Discover the Center for Information Resilience, an OSINT resource that aggregates global issues from social media and footage, and learn its transparent methodology for data collection, verification, and mapping.

Explore status cake to monitor website uptime and downtime, set up a free account, customize HTTP tests, alerts, and region-based checks for OSINT research.

Use Uptime Robot to monitor website uptime, configure alerts by email, SMS, or push, and track overall uptime, incidents, and days without incidents.

Explore Interpol's 'identify me' page to help the public identify deceased women in European cold cases across Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain, with case details and attributes.