2023 OSINT Recap: Center of Excellence in Social Links
What was done by me and my guys to bring OSINT power to people and fight crime
This year, Social Links formed a Center of Excellence. I joined SL as head of the newly created department.
It was a challenging journey to set up processes and align on goals. Still, we started and ended the year successfully, doing many great things to drive our solutions helping to fight crime and conducting various research; to make the more expert company and move forward OSINT industry.
I'm proud of my great team: Costanza Piras, Bruno Alonso, Polina Aleksandrova, Ivan Kravtsov ❤️ and of course our colleagues from Social Links supported us.
We:
have done a lot of investigations and research;
prepared many international diverse cases demonstrating the value of OSINT methods and tools;
demonstrated cases at webinars, conferences, and on-site and offline workshops, as well as in articles;
contributed to open-source tools;
launched 2 product courses for partners on SL Pro for Maltego and i2;
helped launch our flagship product Crimewall.
Our cases include (but are not limited by) cybercrime investigations, due diligence, anti-money laundering and asset tracing, threat intelligence and exposure assessment, public safety and counter-terrorism, anti-drugs trafficking and social listening.
Enjoy reading and watching by the links below!
Webinars and interviews
- How to return 2 million euros with OSINT (Jörn Weber and Dmitry Danilov)
- Elevating OSINT with Social Media and Messengers (Gary Ruddell and Ivan Kravtsov)
-Investigating Cryptocurrency Theft Through OSINT (Ivan Kravtsov, Artem Irgebaev)
- OSINT and AI: a New Dawn of Data Analysis (Costanza Piras and Ivan Kravtsov)
- OSINT and Next-Level Cybersecurity (Ivan Kravtsov and Dmitry Danilov)
- OSINT & AI: Advanced Analysis (Gary Ruddell and Ivan Kravtsov)
- Leveraging OSINT To Fight Financial Crime (Ivan Kravtsov)
- OSINT Automation: Speed Up Investigation Workflow (Ivan Kravtsov)
- Combating White-Collar Crime with OSINT (Ivan Kravtsov)
- Countering Organized Crime with OSINT (Ivan Kravtsov)
- Resolucion De Casos Criminales Con OSINT (David Sanz and Costanza Piras)
-Ferramentas de inteligência Open Source - investigações avançadas: SL Professional para i2 (Bruno Alonso)
Blog articles
All our blog materials are here. Special thanks to Polina Alexandrova for her diligence in developing this direction!
- OSINT Tips: Investigating Closed Profiles
- A Real OSINT Case: Uncovering a Hacker Group
- How to Recognize AI-Generated Pictures, Videos, and Audio (in collaboration with Cyber Detective,
)- OSINT Tips: 5 Ways to Deanonymize Users on Telegram
- OSINT in Sexual Abuse Investigations: From Data to Justice
Center of Excellence Column
- The Role of the Center of Excellence
- IP Address Analysis in OSINT Investigations
- OSINT Investigations on Gaming Platforms
- Stepping Up Perimeter Surveillance with OSINT
Open Source tools
- Interpol Notices transforms for Maltego
- Telegram similar channels (CLI and Maltego tool): great post about it
- Adana (Bellingcat's Hackathon, with Denis Zvyagintsev)
Conferences, Meetups, and other events
- Hardcore OSINT: Reversing social media mechanisms (leHACK 2023, me as Soxoj, thanks Sylvain): YouTube video, announcement.
- OSINT Case Study: Identifying Criminals Through Social Media Analysis (ISS Europe, Christof De Windt and Dmitry Danilov)
- IT-Forensic Roadshow (Philipp Rozhkov and Polina Aleksandrova with mh Service)
- Revelando La Identidad De Actores De Grupos Extremistas En La Darkweb (ISS World LatAm, Bruno Alonso, Stella Gonzalez Medina)
- Social mechanisms weaknesses for SOCMINT (OSINTerdam, Dmitry Danilov)
- FIFE 2023 Madrid workshop (Robert Billington, Bruno Alonso, Anastasia Popova with OnRetrieval)
- The Dark Web: a key OSINT resource (Valeria Ceci and Polina Aleksandrova)
- Offensive OSINT: when open sources are not enough (3rd OSINT BE Meetup, me as Soxoj, thanks Dieter Stroobants)
- International Police Expo 2023 (Polina Aleksandrova, Philipp Rozhkov, Arina Tsygankova)
- Forensic Technology Day (Polina Aleksandrova and Robert Billington with mh Service)
- OSINT in Cybersecurity - private cases (OSINTerdam, Dmitry Danilov)
- Digital Forensics and OSINT Focus Day (Costanza Piras and Robert Billington with Arina AG)
- Quiénes están detrás de las campañas de phishing? (FIFE 2023 by OnRetrieval, Bruno Alonso)
- OSINT in Action: Combating Financial Fraud and Disinformation (DIC Zurich, Costanza Piras, Robert Billington)
- Kriptia seminar (Costanza Piras, Valeria Ceci with Kriptia)
- Investigation of school shootings (OSINTerdam, Dmitry Danilov)
- Workshops and roadshows in Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte (Bruno Alonso and Stella Gonzalez Medina with TechBiz Forense Digital)
Btw, we created a lot of instructions for workshops and conducted them out in large numbers, but most often privately to our clients.
So, that's not even half of the events we participated in 🙈… I hope the next year will be no less productive!
More information is available in my initial posts on LinkedIn: 1st part, 2nd part, 3rd part).
❓ What's the most useful for you? Share your thoughts, and help us make the next year more productive! 🚀
Thanks to all involved, sorry if I forgot something… and let's OSINT! 🤘