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Welcome to OSINT Pros Updates #3.
This week’s issue includes...
🔍✨ This Week in OSINT
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💡🔍 OSINT Pro Tips
📰✨ Newsletter Spotlight
👽📜 Reddit Roundup
🛠️✨ OSINT Toolbox
🎁🔍 Mystery Box
🔍✨ This Week in OSINT ✨🕵️♂️
A Mexican OSINT researcher @ivancastl took a mid-April 2026 leak from DarkForums (big cybercrime forum) and turned it into a mapping tool... Link
GeoSpy has a twin now. (It looks like a suspicious website to me as it’s vibe coded as per my thinking.) Try with caution.
Someone is building @ClaudeWar (Realtime global intel terminal.) and launched an official utility token on @pumpfun instead of taking investment from VC. (I don’t like this bullshit of utility tokens as most of them turns out to be a fraud in future, so i suggest staying away, but if you are rich, you can try your luck.)
Bellingcat sees OSINT flourish despite budget constraints and legal attacks. Link
Detailed research on Instant Data Scraper. Read here
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Read How To Investigate A Telegram Channel, User, or Bot In 2026 Link
Read OSINT on VK: How to Find Information About a Private, Hidden, or Banned Account Link
Read Is OSINT Legal in the UK? What to Know Link
Read Leveraging Home Directory Paths for OSINT Link
Read Inside the Mind of a Lares Red Team: How OSINT Unlocks the Attack Link
Watch multiple webinars in The OSINT Edge: Where Open Source Meets Mission Advantage Link
🛠️✨ OSINT Toolbox 🔍🌐
TrackTweets(Know What Happens on X Before Everyone Else) - Track competitors, deleted tweets, keyword mentions, and unusual spikes instantly. (I will surely try this and write a detailed review on it once I got some more free time.)
App Permission Analyzer - App Permission Analyzer helps you understand the permissions, trackers, and privacy risks of Android apps installed on your device or APK files you choose to analyze. Learn More
📰✨ Newsletter Spotlight
Read OSINT & AI for everyone - Thursday, May 14, 2026 Link
Read Technisette's Tips & Tricks - #003
👽📜 Reddit Roundup
A redditor created WhoCord: the modular OSINT Toolkit with 30+ tools. (I believe a new tools collection/directory comes everytime i blink my eyes) (My Suggestion - Don’t waste your time, it’s vibe coded)
💡🔍 OSINT Pro Tips
OSINT for lead generation is slept on. - Job postings, company tech stacks, LinkedIn activity, hiring patterns — tells you who needs what you sell.
GIJN Academy - If you are interested in investigation journalism, always keep an eye on Gijn academy. Link
🎁🔍 Mystery Box
ESPAÑOLA: From hooligans to war machines - An open-source investigative book on PMCs and the wartime conversion of subcultural violence. Link
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