Bellingcat is a website for online open source investigations, publishing investigations and guides on topics including conflict, satellite imagery and social media. It hosts a membership program with access to training announcements and podcasts, community workshops, and a Discord server where researchers discuss investigations and collaborate.
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New Online Investigation (OSINT) Resources - IntelTechniques Blog is a curated OSINT or research resource with tools, guides, links, and.
Bellingcat spreadsheet of open-source investigation tools for verification, geolocation, and research.
Aware-Online provides a free collection of custom Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) scripts and links to third-party OSINT tools, alongside tutorials, to support effective internet and social media investigations. The provider does not actively monitor information entered into its scripts.
OSINT search page with tools and queries for finding email addresses and related public information online.
Aware Online page with Facebook OSINT search forms and shortcuts for public profile research.
ANY.RUN sandbox for interactive malware analysis, behavior monitoring, and file investigation.
LinkScope is online investigation software that represents information as discrete entities, connects related data via resolution functions to build knowledge graphs, and helps users extract insights from online data. It offers graph visualisation, drag-and-drop data entry, event timelines, browser tab import, location mapping, and extensible functionality. A server version supports live project collaboration, text extraction from over 100 document types, content summarization, and context-aware Q&A about project data. Installers are available for Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11, though the SFDP graph layout is not functional on Windows.
Curated SOCMINT resource board with links for researching social platforms, profiles, posts, and online communities.
Open source intelligence toolkit for gathering and analyzing information from websites and online sources.
Workspace for organizing OSINT investigations, sources, entities, tasks, and evidence notes.
Awesome OSINT For Everything is an OSINT resource for online investigations, research links, search methods, and public data tools.
OSINT tool for finding accounts and public traces connected to an email address across online services.
CRATOR is a proposed dark web crawler described in an arXiv paper. It is designed to extract pages that handle security protocols such as captchas, using seed URL lists, link analysis and scanning to discover content, with user-agent rotation and proxy usage for anonymity. The authors report evaluation using coverage, performance and robustness metrics, and suggest threat intelligence, cybersecurity and online investigation applications.
DNSlytics is an online investigation tool for viewing information about IP addresses, domain names and providers. It offers DNS lookups, email testing, WHOIS lookups, and reports on AS/BGP, CIDR and TLD data. Premium website access and a premium API provide additional page views, monitors and data.
Aware Online tutorial explaining how to find open FTP servers and public file listings.
Security research toolkit for extracting, transforming, and analyzing data during investigation workflows.
Aware Online tutorial for examining website source code during OSINT and web investigations.
MADATA is the University of Mannheim's research data repository. It invites researchers and faculty to submit research data and make it accessible online for reference and further investigation. It provides DOIs for research data, an OAI-PMH interface for metadata harvesting, and a SPARQL endpoint for a MADATA subset at Wikidata.
OH SHINT! is an OSINT resource for online investigations, research links, search methods, and public data tools.
OSINT Combine is an OSINT resource for online investigations, research links, search methods, and public data tools.
OSINT Tool Explorer is an OSINT resource for online investigations, research links, search methods, and public data tools.
OSINTgeek is an OSINT resource for online investigations, research links, search methods, and public data tools.
GitHub OSINT collection with tools, links, and resources for online investigation workflows.