Indicator Guides

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

+11

Oct 2, 2025

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15 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