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Hunchly - OSINT Articles - Tenacity in Online Investigations

We are heavily involved in the OSINT community, and blog about issues that impact investigators, researchers and journalists. Have a read about some of them below!

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Finding the Most Popular Personal Email on the Planet

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Vetting & Court Disclosure for Online Investigations

Published: January 18, 2019 I couldn't help but notice this monstrous money laundering case in Canada that was tossed out because the Crown (Canadian prosecutors) accidentally disclosed a confidential human source. This hurts for sure.

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Hunchly - OSINT Articles - How to Blow Your Online Cover With URL Previews

Published: January 2, 2019 Updated: January 5, 2019 - Additional testing was performed against Skype that revealed that URL previews were still working. My initial testing methodology just didn't determine the right circumstances under which it generated previews. Please see the Skype section below. Updates to the Slack section to include a mitigation has been added as well.

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Tenacity

I totally understand that sometimes (particularly in private practice) you may be limited by your client in terms of how many hours you can spend. This is no different in law enforcement either, you do not have unlimited time and resources (contrary to popular belief) to perform an investigation.

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The Unfriendly Friend Request

Published June 26, 2018 There was a great article on Naked Security that described how a man was charged with possessing a firearm and ammunition after an undercover police officer befriended him on Facebook and discovered photographs of a handgun, a large amount of cash and keys to a Mercedes.

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Hunchly - OSINT Articles - Emojis in The Courtroom

Published: June 19, 2018 A Hunchly customer had sent me this interesting interview where a professor, and a defense lawyer discuss the use of emojis in the courtroom. Much like my post on jumping to conclusions, where emojis were used, I found it interesting to hear some opinions on how emojis are showing up in court and what it means for OSINT investigations.

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Advanced Website Analysis for OSINT

Published: Jun 5, 2018 Many OSINT investigations are tied to using our bread and butter sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. I like to think that overall we are pretty good at extracting data from those platforms and leveraging the information found there.

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Using Ghiro Image Forensics with Hunchly

Published: May 29, 2018 Ghiro is an incredibly cool image forensics platform that allows multiple users to store and analyze thousands of images. Ghiro automatically extracts EXIF metadata, builds maps, performs error level analysis and much more.

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Jumping to OSINT Conclusions

Published: May 23, 2018 We all have done it. We find a Tweet, an IP address, or some other piece of information during an investigation, and we gleefully toss it into our report thinking we have the smoking gun or some killer argument that will win the day.

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Dark Web Puzzle - Illuminated

Published: August 25, 2017 As you may or may not know, I love puzzles. I think it is very akin to doing investigations and I can easily spend an evening chasing down clues, solving ciphers, and reading HTML source. Today I saw a fresh puzzle that I thought I would detail.

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Screenshots and a Terrorism Case

Published: June 9, 2017 A Hunchly user alerted me to a terrorism case here in Canada that had a lot of relevant background on how law enforcement in some cases collects, and preserves evidence during online investigations and how that evidence is submitted to the Court.

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Hunchly - OSINT Articles - OSINT Investigation - Who Is That Brazilian Bank?

A Wired article this week caught my eye and I couldn't resist investigating the subject of it. Andy Greenberg wrote about a presentation by Kaspersky that involved a large Brazilian bank that had its entire Internet infrastructure hijacked. Pretty gnarly stuff.

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Setting Up Chrome for I2P and Tor Investigations

Published: February 2, 2017 Often as investigators we can focus a lot of our time on Tor and looking at hidden services hosted there. As you may or may not have know there was a Tor setup guide available to Hunchly mailing list subscribers that you can download here.

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