In the last post, we visited airports and tracked planes. This time we will go down to earth, but we will again wander to distant corners of the globe. Observing the devices that surround us, it is not difficult to notice that more and more of them would like to connect to the Internet - TVs, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, thermostats - all this gradually acquires functionalities that can [...]
Month: November 2021
Take to the skies with OSINT - open source air traffic tracking
I have been observing airplanes for a long time, the natural direction of OSINT's interests was therefore sources of information allowing for live tracking of airplanes routes. Currently, such tracking is possible mainly due to the spread of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) system, in which aircraft determine their position using navigation [...]
RonanVM - Your finished OSINT machine + a handful of notes about VMs
TL; DR - If you need a pre-configured virtual machine for your OSINT investigations, take a look here for a ready OVA image that you can import into VirtualBox and have a clean system ready. There you will also find a list of tools and additional information about the project. And now the longer version ... Creating a virtual machine for [...]
OPSEC in OSINT - basics and main concepts
Collecting information as part of OSINT is often based on finding traces of users' online activity, such as logging into social networks or using the same e-mail address to register on multiple portals. It must not be forgotten, however, that the same applies to ourselves when we try to obtain this information, often [...]
CyberPolice - REvil 1: 0 - on the risks of being a ransomware operator
Washington Post journalists published yesterday an article about the end of activities by the REvil group as a result of an action carried out by the American Cyber Command - the command of cyber forces. Curbing the actions of REvil is certainly good news for everyone - criminals are responsible, for example, for ransomware attacks on Kaseye or JBS and poisoned the lives of many [...]