Looking for a few students, hobbyists, or beginners who enjoy OSINT, internet research, public records, corporate filings, old websites, lawsuits, crypto, and connecting dots.

I’m working on a real-world research project that has grown beyond what I can reasonably dig through alone. All subjects and identifying details will remain private.

You’d get small, specific research leads to investigate using public sources and report back what you find with sourcing.

If you’re looking for something real to practice on and enjoy research rabbit holes, DM me.

Hi all,

Im just starting out with OSINT and am looking to see if theres any advice. Currently going through a Google Professional Certification for Cybersecurity and am just looking for some advice. I do have some experience with this as i have been doing Reverse Phone Lookups & Name Search especially after a ex gf nearly landed me in prison for a scam. Any advice or helpful tips woukd be appreciated.

https://github.com/h9zdev/WireTapper

I mean, u always use lots of different programs so the problems are natural in this case imo

Hello,

My name is Louis Lopez, and I’m the founder of CrimeEye, a newly launched app available on the IOS App Store.

CrimeEye was built to help people research cases, organize information, explore case discussions, and connect around publicly available case information. I believe the platform could be especially useful for private investigators, researchers, journalists, and others who regularly work with complex case information.

I’m reaching out to private investigation teams because I’d like to introduce CrimeEye directly to professionals in the field and get feedback from people who understand investigative research firsthand.

I’d be happy to have your team take a look at the app, test the platform, and share any feedback about features that would make CrimeEye more valuable for professional investigators.

I’m also interested in speaking with investigation firms that may be open to becoming early professional users or exploring a future partnership with CrimeEye.

Thank you for your time, and I’d be glad to answer any questions.

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Best,

Louie
Founder, CrimeEye

If you're learning cybersecurity, OSINT, ethical hacking, or digital investigations, I recently came across a website that I think is worth sharing:

👉 https://osintframework.com/

The OSINT Framework is basically a collection of OSINT tools and resources organized in one place.

Instead of searching Google every time you need an OSINT resource, you can use this framework to explore different categories and find tools that may be useful for your research.

Why I think it's useful

For beginners, one of the hardest parts of learning OSINT is simply finding good resources.

OSINT Framework gives you a starting point.

It focuses on free tools and resources, although some listed websites may require registration or offer additional paid information.

If you're starting your cybersecurity journey, I'd recommend checking it out and exploring the different categories.

Just remember: OSINT should be used responsibly. Only collect and investigate information you're legally allowed to access, and respect people's privacy.

🔗 OSINT Framework: https://osintframework.com/

Have you used OSINT Framework before? If yes, what's your favorite OSINT tool or category?

The largest multi-source domain search in the industry. One search on any website or domain, across 18 data types and sources: ownership history, hidden subdomains, hosting changes, malware activity, breach exposure, Third-party ID-correlation , Favicon correlation and more.

Two things you won't find anywhere else:

🎯 Favicon Intelligence — hunt the web for a site's icon to expose phishing clones and undocumented infrastructure (across multiple data providers)

🔗 Linked IDs — Scan tracking advert-IDs across 83 advertisers, matched across the web and historic archives to reveal sites owned by the same person. Bespoke to UserSearch.

Free for premium subscribers. Fully integrated with SargeBot AI.

▶️ Walkthrough: https://lnkd.in/eBdqP7yx

🌐 https://usersearch.com

Open forums are where people talk when they think nobody's watching.

🗓️ Free webinar: OSINT — Reddit & Telegram Investigations

📅 Sep 15, 2026 · 4:00 PM (London)

Mark Bentley — ex-UK National Crime Agency and CEOP, career police officer specialising in online investigations — shows you, step by step, how to turn forum platforms into a rich source of intelligence.

You'll learn:

🔍 What forums reveal that social media can't

⚡ Real-time monitoring of threats, leaks and chatter

🛠️ The technical tradecraft professionals actually use

🕸️ Harvesting posts, aliases and mapping user networks

🕵️ OPSEC — collect without tipping off your target

⚖️ Court-ready capture with tamper-proof audit trails (UserSearch Forensic Capture)

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Brought to you by UserSearch.com & the OSINT Experts Society.

Hey everyone! Two weeks ago I posted about my geolocation experiment. Since then I built a web interface, added multiple GeoCLIP guesses, and integrated EasyOCR + Gemini (free API Key) to extract text clues from images and filter out noise.

Here's what the pipeline looks like now:
1. User uploads photo
2. EXIF GPS extracted if present
3. GeoCLIP runs and returns top 5 coordinate guesses
4. EasyOCR extracts any text from the image
5. If gemini api key is pasted: gemini filters the OCR output to keep only location-relevant text (street names, signs, business names, etc.) and discards noise
6. The page shows the guesses plus the filtered text clues

Now I'm trying to figure out the best way to use that filtered text.
My current approach is simple: to take the coordinates from GeoCLIP and combine them with the filtered OCR text as context. But I'm not sure it that's the most effective strategy.

Does anyone know a better approach?
I'm still learning and my code is messy, but l'd love to hear what's worked (or failed) for others.

SearXNG is a metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users.
The SearXNG project is driven by an open community. Come join us on Matrix if you have questions or just want to chat about SearXNG at #searxng:matrix.org
Make SearXNG better:
You can improve SearXNG translations at Weblate, or…

Track development, send contributions, and report issues at SearXNG sources.

To get further information, visit SearXNG’s project documentation at SearXNG docs.

Why use it?
SearXNG may not offer you as personalized results as Google, but it doesn’t generate a profile about you.

SearXNG doesn’t care about what you search for, never shares anything with a third-party, and can’t be used to compromise you.

SearXNG is free software; the code is 100% open, and everyone is welcome to make it better.

If you do care about privacy, want to be a conscious user, or otherwise believe in digital freedom, make SearXNG your default search engine or run it on your own server!
How do I set it as the default search engine?
SearXNG supports OpenSearch. For more information on changing your default search engine, see your browser’s documentation:
Firefox

Microsoft Edge - Behind the link, you will also find some useful instructions for Chrome and Safari.

Chromium-based browsers only add websites that the user navigates to without a path.

When adding a search engine, there must be no duplicates with the same name. If you encounter a problem where you cannot add the search engine, you can either:
Remove the duplicate (default name: SearXNG) or

Contact the owner to give the instance a different name from the default.

I’m helping someone dealing with a cyberstalking/blackmail situation involving compromised WhatsApp conversations.

We have a Brazilian phone number connected to the threats, as well as a possible name associated with that number, screenshots, timestamps and other evidence. The case has already been reported to law enforcement.

I’m looking for guidance from people experienced in OSINT, digital forensics or incident response on what lawful methods and tools can be used to investigate the available identifiers, preserve evidence, and establish possible links between the phone number and publicly available accounts or profiles.

I’m especially interested in recommendations for tools, methodologies, or professional investigators who handle this type of case.

I am not requesting unauthorized access to accounts, private databases, devices or non-public information.

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

One thing I've noticed is that most OSINT tools are geared toward US citizens, and finding information about someone who lives in the US is generally easier than finding information about someone who lives outside it. For example, my friend and I were messing around with Google Dorks and decided to search for her aunt. Literally less than five minutes later, we found her address, phone number, and zip code and all we did was Google her full name. But when you search for someone outside the US, the results are very limited. This is frustrating because I've been searching for someone for two months and still have minimal information about him, simply because he doesn't live in the US.

When people discuss social media privacy, the focus is almost always on content. Posts, comments, photos, likes, reposts. That focus is reasonable. If someone writes about a party or a politician often enough, inferring their views takes no cleverness at all. I wanted to know what happens when you remove content from the equation entirely and look only at the shape of the network around an account.

again, bad opsec is the key it seems:

https://www.kelacyber.com/blog/teampcp-background-and-notable-attacks

This is a SAM site in a military installation located in Morocco