Category: Tools & Platforms
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OSInt on China: a look beyond the wall
For a few years now, for study and for work, I’ve been developing my own processes and tools to do OSInt on Chinese targets. It all started both for academic reasons, as a student at Ca’ Foscari, and through CTI work, where reconstructing the behaviour and structure of Chinese adversaries was an integral part of…
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Exploratores, my OSINT toolbox
At the top of my OSINT library, right now, there are two books: OSINT Techniques by Michael Bazzell and Deep Dive by Rae Baker. They take different approaches, but both are very hands-on and both have proved very useful over time. And it is precisely from one of them that this story begins. In chapter…
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Argos is back, and it’s not flying solo
While the blog was being slowly brought back online, we kept working on two projects that have proven useful for our day-to-day work and in which we are investing a fair amount of time. We have given Argos a new lease of life and, building on the experience gained, we have developed the first beta…
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Argos is back, and it’s not alone!
While the blog was slowly being brought back to life, we kept working on two projects that help us in our daily work and that we are investing quite a lot of time in. We gave Argos a new life and, building on that experience, developed the first beta of Speculator. Argos Argos is the…
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Why the Telegram “one-click IP leak” is not a vulnerability
Recent worrying rumours about a vulnerability featuring the IP address leak of a Telegram user have been circulating all over the internet. In this article we assess the severity of said “vulnerability”, how the “exploit” works and what can be done before falling into the trap. Finally, we explore a set of considerations to take…
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A day-to-day safe browsing app
Why Everyday Privacy Matters Everyday browsing might feel like a casual scroll, but it’s also a steady stream of data that silently follows you around the internet. Most popular sites embed multiple third-party trackers on a single page, so each click hands away snippets of your behaviour to dozens of advertisers. Beyond the moment-to-moment clicks,…