See the following 2 points for how namesdir.com can help when doing OSINT:
-- Given a name (first name or last name), namesdir can help suggest usernames that someone with that name could likely use. So if you have been able to OSINT a name to a platform, namesdir can provide good username suggestions. To see these username suggestions, go to namesdir.com, search for a name, click on the name and scroll down to "Typos & Misspells"
-- Imagine this, you're on an OSINT hunt, you need to determine the full name of your OSINT target person, you come across an image with a name. You have a good hunch that this is the name of your target person. However, the image is blurred out or some characters of the name in the image are unreadable. You notice you are only able to read the first name perfectly as Jake. The last name has 10 characters and you can only read 3 (Mag) out of the image. In this case, namesdir.com can help you determine a good guess of the remaining 7 characters of the last name. Go to namesdir.com, search for Jake, select "Jake given name" and just Ctrl F the results for "Jake Mag". Quickly, you realize there is a last name called Magallanes making you figure out the full name of your target person as Jake Magallanes.
GeoChirp (geochirp.com) under "Social Networks," "Twitter," "Location / Mapping" returns an otherwise blank website with the header "Website Disabled."
oxt.me (Open Explorer Tool) is a basic free chain analysis tool that has many features beneficial to the OSINT community that are not available on most public block explorers.
These features include:
- User annotations of financial entities, available with a free account (no email required)
- A conservative wallet clustering algorithm for grouping multiple addresses
- A transaction graph which is accessible from tool bar on the left side of the transactions tab
Freenet is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites" (web sites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship. Freenet is decentralised to make it less vulnerable to attack, and if used in "darknet" mode, where users only connect to their friends, is very difficult to detect.
What is AbuseIPDB?
AbuseIPDB is a project dedicated to helping combat the spread of hackers, spammers, and abusive activity on the internet.
Our mission is to help make Web safer by providing a central blacklist for webmasters, system administrators, and other interested parties to report and find IP addresses that have been associated with malicious activity online.
You can report an IP address associated with malicious activity, or check to see if an IP address has been reported, by using the search box above.
Power user? Consider registering an account to gain access to our powerful, free API for both reporting and checking the report status of IP addresses. We also support integration with Fail2Ban for automated reporting of abusive IPs.
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