March 2026: The OSINT Developments You Need to Know
A small selection of this months most relevant OSINT developments, curated from our premium edition.
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A Small Selection of Tradecraft Tips & Industry News from March 2026
OSINT Field Notes - from Benjamin Strick released Dark Light Viewer, a browser-based tool that uses VIIRS night-time light data to track changes in night lights across the planet | try here
Bellingcat released Turnstone, an open source tool that searches historical ADS-B flight data to explore patterns over time and in specific locations | view here
The SIPRI Arms Transfers Database updated on 9 March 2026, replacing all previously published arms transfer data with new figures covering 1950 to 2025 | try here
FlightGlobal reports that commercial satellite imagery from Chinese intelligence firm MizarVision tracks US forces operating against Iran | read here
OSINT Field Notes - from Benjamin Strick geolocated Taliban special forces drills by matching sand dunes in desert terrain, confirming Kandahar Airfield as the departure point and pinpointing the exact soldier drop-off location and bombed dune south of the airfield | watch here
Anna Schild and Jochen Spangenberg shared lessons and outcomes from the concluded VERA.AI project, discussing ongoing results and past and future efforts to counter disinformation | read here
Cloudflare launched a web crawling API that lets free-account holders crawl up to 100,000 public web pages via a single API call | try here
FIMI ISAC operates a central hub that shares in-depth reports on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, covering the latest TTPs, threat actors, and mitigation strategies for stakeholders, policymakers, and CSOs | read here
Bellingcatâs Trevor Ball spoke with host Charlotte Maher about identifying weapons and munitions used in conflict, including those appearing in the Iran conflict | watch here
OSINT Combine published an in-depth guide to searching and monitoring Reddit | read here
OSINTERSECTâs Joseph Jones released a free Chrome extension called âvkXtractâ that extracts and presents VK data in various formats | try here
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence published the 2026 Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) of the U.S. Intelligence Community | read here
Cyabra begins trading on the Nasdaq | read here
A CBC Front Burner episode examines how amateur âOSINT cowboysâ use AI-powered dashboards to monitor the Iran conflict and questions what happens when war coverage becomes gamified on prediction markets | view here
A GIJN webinar led by investigative trainer Henk van Ess covers the latest tools and techniques journalists can use to detect and verify AI-generated text and images | watch here
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