Interesting tool for automating Instagram likes, follows, and comments
Go-instabot automates Instagram user following, liking pictures, commenting, and unfollowing people that don't follow you back on Instagram.

It uses the unofficial but excellent Go Instagram API, goinsta (v2).

They claim, that the script is coded so that your Instagram account will not get banned ; it waits between every call to simulate human behavior.

New list of countries in which Israeli infosec companies can export their products.
Following NSO's Pegasus incident, The Israeli Ministry of Defense greatly undercut the list of countries in which Israeli infosec companies can export their products.

The new list included only democratic countries, including countries that are members of the EU and Five Eyes. Now the list looks like this: Australia, Austria, Belgium, UK, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Iceland, Spain, India, Ireland, Italy, Canada, Cyprus, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, USA, Finland, France, Croatia, Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Estonia, South Korea and Japan.
https://thehackernews.com/2021/11/israel-bans-sales-of-hacking-and.html

Attacks on Ukraine's network infrastructure increased tenfold
The number of attacks on Ukraine's network infrastructure has recently increased tenfold, as noted by observational researcher Brian Krebs.

Government networks are under attack by vipers, phishing attacks on mailboxes of civilians and military servants, banks are after a series of DDOS attacks, and providers are being hit in the same way.

All these are just symptoms of the inevitable digitalization of conflicts in the 21st century.

Researchers discovered a Trojan-infected apps, that have been installed by at least 9.3 million users
Researchers from Doctor Web studied AppGallery, a standard catalog of applications in Huawei devices, and found dozens of games that contain the Android.Cynos.7.origin Trojan. The infected games have been installed by at least 9.3 million users.

Everything is pretty standard: some harmless app about a cute cat with unexpected access requests to making phone calls and geolocation. The child, quickly approves all the permissions to please himself with the game. Meanwhile, a cute game about another cat is transmitting to a remote server:
⋅ phone number,
⋅ geolocation,
⋅ network code and country code,
⋅ device characteristics,
⋅ parameters from the metadata of applications in which the Trojan is embedded.

It's especially disturbing, since the main target audience of such games is children

Top OSINT Tools for Facebook Investigation
Here are the main sources of data that we use when conducting OSINT research on the Facebook social network:
login (Restore Access)
lookup-id (Find ID)
@usersbox_bot (Search by VK)
@getfb_bot (Search by Phone)
whopostedwhat (Find Posts)
sowdust (Find Posts)
maigret (Find Nickname)
whatsmyname (Find Nickname)
search4faces (Find Photo)
findclone (Find Photo)
yandex (Find Photo)
phantombuster (Parser)
archive (Archive Page)
fuckfacebook (Find Phone)
eyeofgod (Find Phone)
canarytokens (Check IP)
iplogger (Check IP)
facebook.com/browse/fanned_pages/?id=USERID (Find Likes)
facebook.com/friendship/USERID/USERID (Users Connections)

Script for automatically starting Vkontakte conversations
VKMSSG is a python script aimed at creating endless conversations on VKontakte according to the parameters you specified. Can be used as wrapping messages. Can be used to make money on traffic arbitration.
https://github.com/TermuxGodd/vkmssg

Keep in mind, to work with the script, we need 2 accounts - the sender and the addressee. First you need to get the sender token.

Western countries have frozen about half of Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves
Western countries have frozen about $300 billion, of Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves, since the start of the so called "special operation" said Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov.

The US made it clear to Beijing that it will be overtaken by “consequences” if China tries to help Russia compensate for losses from Western sanctions - White House

The French Foreign Minister said that the “new package of sanctions” of the EU against Russia will come into force, probably on Sunday and will include:
▪️import of iron and steel from Russia
▪️export of luxury goods
▪️prohibition of any investment in the oil sector
▪️expansion of the sanctions list of businessmen.

Seems like Russia has enough funds to ensure the production of necessary goods and payments.

New script for searching Instagram GEO location
The Instagram location search script that enables to find Instagram location ids near a specified polygon (latitude and longitude). The list can be saved as a JSON file, or GeoJSON, and also supports a map to visualize the location of returned points.
https://github.com/bellingcat/instagram-location-search

How to monitor someone else WhatsApp activity
OSINT is a universal thing. Someone uses tools to investigate military operations, someone - to follow a husband or wife.

Introducing Watools a service to control someone else's whatsapp. It checks the online status, captures the fact of communication between two users (by the time they were online), gives information about the user's habits (for example, sleep duration) and much more. etc.

In general, Watools is a kind of inside-spy. The target entered the messenger - you receive a push notification. Communicating with the "suspect"? You get testimonials.

Of the minuses: to use the service, you have to pay.

BUT! There is a trial - 8 hours. During this time, you will be able to determine whether the game is worth the candle or not.
https://watools.io/wa-watcher

Top OSINT Tools for IP Address Investigation
Here are the top sources we use when conducting IP address OSINT research:

maxmind (GeoIP)
sypexgeo (GeoIP)
ipinfo (GeoIP)
domaintools (WHOIS)
virustotal (Virus Check)
dnsdumpster (DNS)
ptrarchive (DNS)
dnslytics (DNS)
viewdns (DNS)
intelx (Leaks)
leakix (Leaks)
cyberhubarchive (Skype Leaks)
webresolver (Skype Leaks)
talosintelligence (IP Quality)
ipqualityscore (IP Quality)
spyse (IoT)
fofa (IoT)
censys (IoT)
zoomeye (IoT)
shodan (IoT)
alienvault (Framework)
spiderfoot (Framework)
robtex (Framework)
threatcrowd (Visualization)
canarytokens (Logger IP)
grabify (Logger IP)
iplogger (Logger IP)
iknowwhatyoudownload (Torrents)

How to monitor economic sanctions globally
Sanctions Explorer is a project initiated by a collaboration between Archer, a former Berkeley-based nonprofit using tech to improve human rights and human security, and C4ADS, a nonprofit dedicated to providing data-driven, evidence-based research on global conflict and transnational security issues.

The current iteration of Sanctions Explorer was developed fully by C4ADS Data and Technology team, and is meant to be a comprehensive source of all current and historical sanctions data across all major sanctioning authorities.
https://sanctionsexplorer.org

The $1,000,000 DeepFake Challenge
The outcomes of the recent Kaggle DeepFake Detection Challenge (DFDC) give you a better sense of how algorithms can manipulate videos and what to look for when you suspect a video may be altered.

On the Kaggle Competition website the description of the challenge says, "AWS, Facebook, Microsoft, the Partnership on AI’s Media Integrity Steering Committee, and academics have come together to build the Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC). The goal of the challenge is to spur researchers around the world to build innovative new technologies that can help detect deepfakes and manipulated media." The winners of the challenge were awarded $1,000,000.

This challenge contains 100,000 DeepFake videos and 19,154 real videos, which make up just over 470gb of video data. While the data for this project was based on data from Kaggle's Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC).

Here is a link to the Github repository for the winning model.

How to track military forces movement on land and sea

Tracking Military Aircraft
Tracking information (detailed route and a variety of technical details) about military aircraft flying over a specific territory (Europe, Middle East etc.).

Tracking Military Ships
An interactive map that shows the location and direction of warships in real time.

How to quickly analyze Javascript files
SourceWolf is an interesting tool for analyzing Javascript files. It finds all the variables, endpoints and social media links mentioned in the code in just a few seconds.
https://github.com/ksharinarayanan/SourceWolf

Ukraine Crisis Tracking Tools
Twitter account @Ernest4003, the founder of Sussex Global Analysis, created a Start. me page with links to several sources of information that track the current situation in Ukraine. From news and sanctions, to cams and links to other sources.

If you are following the crisis, this is a good collection to bookmark.
https://start.me/p/lLBdE6/ukraine-crisis-tracker

How to use satellite imagery to visualize changes in landscapes
It is absolutely phenomenal knowing that we live in a time where anyone with an internet connection can easily gain access, for free, to satellite imagery gathered from satellites orbiting Earth. Every day millions of images are collected, capturing every nook and cranny of our planet.

With the right tools and skills all of this data, can help geolocate an image or video and, in some cases, even narrow it down to a time period (this referred to as Chronolocation).
https://gralhix.wordpress.com/2022/02/23/how-to-use-satellite-imagery-to-visualise-changes-in-landscapes/

How to geolocate a Twitter video using free OSINT tools
A case study on how OSINT and geo intelligence enables to geolocate a Twitter video using free OSINT tools and how relying on information from the news can set you back.
https://gralhix.wordpress.com/2022/02/26/how-to-geolocate-a-twitter-video-using-free-osint-tools/

Extracting information about Google documents
Xeuledoc enables yo to fetch information about any public Google document, including:
- Google Drive
- Google Docs
- Google Spreadsheets
- Google Slides
- Google Drawning
- Google My Maps
- Google Apps Script

https://github.com/Malfrats/xeuledoc

German infosec agency recommended to stop using Kaspersky antivirus solutions
Do you remember how many years there were talks about suspicions against Kaspersky for cooperation with Russian authorities?

Now, the German infosec agency has recommended that their companies stop using Kaspersky antivirus solutions. They fear that amid international friction, the Moscow-based company could compromise the safety of users of their products. They say the Big Russian Brother will force you to hand over data, spy and arrange cyber attacks. .

Kaspersky, as always, denies everything and calls the decision politically motivated.

How to extract forensic evidence from Docker containers
The Docker forensics toolkit enables you to perform forensic analysis of Docker containers based on forensic copies of hard drives of a docker host system. In additon, it allows you to mount a host image, search for machine images and container log files, extract file system metadata and more...
https://github.com/docker-forensics-toolkit/toolkit

Here some additional resources you may find useful:
- A script that automates the process of collecting artifacts from docker
https://github.com/dingtoffee/linuxforensictool/blob/main/Docker%20Forensic/dockerforensic
- Usage scenario
https://github.com/docker-forensics-toolkit/toolkit/blob/master/USAGE.md
- Interesting article on this topic
https://blog.compass-security.com/2021/11/docker-forensics/

10 Most popular free tools for your OSINT investigations

1️⃣ Maltego is one of the best data visualization and investigation automation systems in the world. Used even by Interpol and Europol.

2️⃣ Crystal Explorer is a younger, but free version of one of the most famous tools for researching Bitcoin cryptocurrency transactions, as well as identifying crypto wallets.

3️⃣ @maigret_osint_bot Telegram bot and service of the same name for searching for a username (nickname) match on various forums, online services, social networks and instant messengers.

4️⃣ @EmailPhoneOSINT_bot Telegram bot for researching a mobile phone number or email address based on numerous information leaks.

5️⃣ @UniversalSearchBot is another good Telegram bot designed to search for open information.

6️⃣ Search4faces is a tool for searching for matching photos on a user's avatar in social networks such as VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, TikTok, Instagram and Clubhouse.

7️⃣ Canary Tokens - a universal logger that allows you to get data about the connection and device of an Internet user.

8️⃣ Yandex.Audience is a promising tool for ADINT analysis, in a free version that allows you to get the user's social graph by its advertising ID.

9️⃣ SpiderFoot is a cool and automated OSINT service that specializes in researching websites, domain names and IP addresses.

🔟 Dork Search is a tool for automating and prompting when generating Google Dorks queries.