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The Fitness Heat Map has betrayed military secrets before. Now Strava information looks to have cost an RU Officer his life. We’re always looking for interesting OSINT based stories, and while our content for the week is ready to go, this story was so bizarre it simply couldn’t go unnoticed. In today’s article, we’ll be looking at bad OPSEC paired with good OSINT that appears to have lead to the assassination of a Russian Submarine Commander. Let’s get to it. The first rumblings about this event occurred on Telegram, and it took a few hours for things to filter through and information to unfold. Eventually however we saw this article linked to the event via mainstream news. Russian commander killed while jogging may have been tracked on Strava app | CNN A Russian submarine commander shot to death while jogging on Monday may have been targeted by an assailant tracking him… edition.cnn.comD It’s worth mentioning that the NATO summit at Vilnius was underway as this information wa...

Validating and Geolocating Information is a vital part of the OSINT toolkit. The Status: If you’re a fan of open source intelligence one of the first things you probably realized was that it’s a vast field, with many different types of specialties. We have people who specialize in identifying vehicles, or aircraft along with people who are able to translate and interpret troop movements via social media. There’s an army of geopolitics fans on social media who specialize in various military's or countries. It’s a vast field and as such, it can be quite common to have to interpret these sources that might often lay outside your typical field of experience. In our opinion on of the most interesting facets to this field, can be the geo location and identification of media from various sources. While this can be used in a government role targeting things like human trafficking and dark web activity one extremely common use of this tool is to identify and analyse posts on social...

Passive tracking is pervasive in today’s world. Let’s talk more about that. While we’ve all heard about web fingerprinting and had that moment where we wondered if our microphones were listening to us, most of that tracking revolves around the internet and being tracked by our patterns and the information we share via our social media and browsing habits. However there is another form of electronic surveillance that we experience many times each day, and our experience is that most people don’t give that a second thought. Today, we’re going to talk about how you can be betrayed by something you use every single day and what you can do to mitigate this should you wish to do so. You don’t get far as an Investigator without having a creative brain and finding ingenious ways to navigate problems while using technology to maintain an edge in the field. While this technology can be used in many situations sometimes legally speaking many tools are not suitable for the job, leading to ass...

Jake11 found via OSINT. Jake11 has been extensively tracked providing ELINT data during the ukrainian war. OSINT has become a bit of a buzzword, whilst becoming more blurred on whats actually classified as open source intelligence. Today we'll look quickly at some of the ways open source intelligence connects our world behind the scenes. First, lets get a ChatGPT refresher on just what exactly is defined as open source intelligence, and a quick history of its evolution. Open source intelligence, or OSINT for short, is like a treasure hunt for information. Imagine a group of detectives scouring the streets, looking for clues to solve a mystery. Except instead of physical clues, they're searching for information in the vast expanse of the internet and other publicly available sources. The history of OSINT can be traced back to the early days of intelligence gathering, when spies would sneak into enemy territories to gather information. But with the advent of the internet ...