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Forming a team might be one of the most important aspects of participating in the Trace Labs OSINT Search Party event. A team that works seamlessly in tandem while also communicating openly is key to winning the Black Badge and providing the best intel for Law Enforcement. In this blog…

Skip to: OSINT CTF Key Takeaways I was sitting in a car on surveillance when I was 10 years old. Well, I wasn’t on surveillance, I was bribed with a pack of chewing gum and a Girlfriend magazine to come and sit in a car next to a playground to…

Last year I started on my OSINT training journey and its been one hell of a ride so far…! The internet is like a terrible spouse that betrays you at every turn. You think you know them and they seem reasonable and straight forward enough but they’re not. Our level…

“The Hackers Searching for Missing Children” is a VICE video, part of a series called Super Users. My previous blog post was about the first cyber detective, covered in a different video of the same series. This video follows Robert Sell, and his project called Trace Labs. Trace Labs is…

by Alex Koutsoukos For me, participating in an OSINT search party event is one thing; frantically scanning the internet for scraps of subject intel, copying links, taking screenshots, and slamming the SUBMIT button while praying I didn’t just submit a completely worthless piece of intel. However, I wasn’t sure exactly…

It is good to start with a basic search engine search using the information that is provided in the Missing Person (“MP”) file. This gives more of a background on the case via media publications, which often references important details such as family members. …

Pivoting from subject, to family member by searching Instagram bio’s Many flags can be caught from pivoting on social media handles, but you can also dive deeper pivoting into Instagram bio’s. In the last CTF, I was able to find a family member from the subjects name in their bio…

In any sort of OSINT Investigation, many sites require an account to interact with the adversary . That’s where Sockpuppets come into play . Sockpuppets are basically can be defined as your Alternate Persona that has a social media account. It provides a level of anonymity during Investigations as well…

conINT is a two-day INTelligence conference and fundraising event hosted by The Many Hats Club, Trace Labs, and the National Child Protection Task Force (NCPTF). Held live on Twitch this year, attendees had the opportunity to develop intelligence acquisition and analysis skills, learn about digital investigation, and more with the…