Monthly Round-Up: January 2026
Highlighting selected news items from our weekly premium edition.
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Highlights from January 2026
OSINT Tradecraft Tips & Industry News
Researchers from Anthropic, the AI Security Institute, and the Turing’s Defence and National Security team show that attackers can poison language models with as few as 250 malicious documents, enabling backdoors and data leaks and underscoring the need for stronger defences.
Originally published in 2022 but recently reshared by the author in light of current developments, this practical step-by-step guide explains how to use real-time social media monitoring to investigate human rights violations.
Here are 32 commands for making your ChatGPT prompts more precise. This tip was shared on LinkedIn. For the full breakdown, including the cheat sheet, see the original post.
A useful tip by the GDELT Project Blog, showing how GenAI can turn a static infographic into an interactive, clickable HTML page using Gemini 3.
Neil Hoyne, Chief Strategist at Google, shared an insightful post on building strong data analysis skills. This aligns with our in-house research and with what managers report as missing in many OSINT teams. Data analysis remains an essential skill for OSINT.
On LinkedIn, Steven H. released URL Dater, a self-hosted web app that can be used in investigations for estimating a website’s age.
Gartner names Blackbird[.]AI the leading disinformation narrative intelligence AI company.
While doing research, we came across Google Scholar Labs from Google. You can now ask a detailed research question and get relevant academic papers instantly, which helps speed up literature reviews.
OpenAI is working on ChatGPT Jobs, a career-focused AI agent that supports users with resume advice, job searches, and broader career guidance, TestingCatalog reports.
X user @Harrris0n published an article explanaining that every Waze report shares a user’s exact location, timestamp, and username on Waze’s public web map.
On LinkedIn, Kevin B shared an interesting article from Windscribe about its VPN Relationship Map, which documents relationships between VPN services, their corporate owners, and paid affiliates.
Learn how to convert a list of sources and their targets into a network using the free, no-registration Nocodefunctions web app and visualise it in Gephi.
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