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OSINT

Earth Index: A step-by-step guide to searching satellite imagery with AI

May 11, 2026

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8 min read

Earth Index: A step-by-step guide to searching satellite imagery with AI

How to set up a project, label samples, and search for matching structures and landscape features across the planet.

Craig Silverman

Indicator Guides

19 free tools you can use to investigate a URL

Apr 27, 2026

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8 min read

19 free tools you can use to investigate a URL

Tools and techniques for digging into links, redirects, parameters, and more.

Craig Silverman

Resources

Finding the real owner of a company: a guide to beneficial ownership in the EU, UK, and beyond

Mar 31, 2026

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26 min read

Finding the real owner of a company: a guide to beneficial ownership in the EU, UK, and beyond

2026 could be a turning point for universal beneficial ownership data. Here's what investigators need to know.

Craig Silverman

Resources

The Indicator Guide to building your own reverse image search engine

Mar 24, 2026

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27 min read

The Indicator Guide to building your own reverse image search engine

Step-by-step instructions for how to index a private dataset of images (or videos) and run reverse image search queries against it.

Ishaan Jhaveri

Resources

The Indicator guide to investigating ecommerce sites

Feb 23, 2026

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30 min read

The Indicator guide to investigating ecommerce sites

A practical walkthrough of the tools, techniques, and indicators used to analyze online stores and identify ecommerce fraud operations.

Craig Silverman

The Indicator Guide to using Telegram in digital investigations

Feb 17, 2026

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18 min read

The Indicator Guide to using Telegram in digital investigations

Telegram has become a top source for documenting global conflicts — and so much more. Here's how to use it for investigations.

Jane Lytvynenko

Resources

The Indicator Guide to hunting for documents and files in open buckets, servers, and directories

Nov 12, 2025

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26 min read

The Indicator Guide to hunting for documents and files in open buckets, servers, and directories

How to find interesting and potentially confidential documents sitting on a publicly-accessible server or website

Craig Silverman

Resources

The Indicator Guide to investigating digital ad libraries

Oct 14, 2025

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49 min read

The Indicator Guide to investigating digital ad libraries

Ad repositories can help with backgrounding people and companies, and with investigating influence and disinformation campaigns

Craig Silverman

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Oct 2, 2025

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16 min read

The Indicator Guide to AI labels

We’ve collected in one place how and when major platforms label AI content

Alexios Mantzarlis

OSINT

The Indicator Guide to tools for capturing webpages and social media content

Sep 17, 2025

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35 min read

The Indicator Guide to tools for capturing webpages and social media content

We tested 12 tools ranging from full-featured continuous capture apps to one-off screenshot extensions for grabbing long webpages

Craig Silverman

OSINT

Jun 26, 2025

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38 min read

The Indicator Guide to connecting websites together using OSINT tools and methods

A deep dive into new and established ways to fingerprint site content and infrastructure, link sites via ad and analytics IDs/tags, favicons, and more

Craig Silverman

Online Reviews

May 19, 2025

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13 min read

The Indicator Guide to investigating online reviews

How to analyze online reviews and spot suspicious accounts

Craig Silverman

OSINT

Mar 6, 2024

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9 min read

Key tools and approaches for using AI in OSINT and investigations

AI and LLMs pose significant risk to information integrity. But they also offer a lot of promise for OSINT and investigations. Here's a look at some encouraging areas.

Craig Silverman