Monthly OSINT Round-Up (April 2025)
A FREE summary of tradecraft tips and industry news from the OSINT world - curated by a team of OSINT professionals.
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April 2025 Highlights
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Tradecraft Tips
Get Binance users’ information
Mario Santella shared a tip to extract a Binance user's name and PayID only using a phone number or an email address.
Cheat sheet for Gen Z slang
ShadowDragon created a "GenZ Cheat Sheet", which may come in handy for some investigations.
Stay on top of the latest news
Tagesnetwerk is a website which allows you to get a comprehensive view of the latest news.
New free course to counter disinformation
The AFP released a new course to master the InVid verification plugin.
OSINT resources by country
Henk van Ess created a website which gathers Pavel's Bannikov's OSINT for countries project.
Beware about the OSINT tools you use
Matthias Wilson published an important article, talking about the dangers of blindly accepting and using any OSINT tool.
Most common OSINT mistakes
Alexander Dobbs shared his thoughts on the most common mistakes that OSINT investigators make.
How to investigate with Strava
The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) published a guide to use Strava for investigative purposes.
Industry News
Is photo-based KYC over?
GenAI used for OSINT purposes by the U.S. army
U.S. OSINT subcommittee hosts industry roundtable on intelligence collaboration
Source: https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1519
Anthropic shares a new report on the malicious uses of Claude AI
Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-countering-malicious-uses-of-claude-march-2025
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