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Osint For All

@AllForOsint

Hey #OSINT #geolocation #verification 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♂️, let's solve a geolocation challenge. Blast from the past. 🤓

Finding Luther — An OSINT Geo location Challenge. 🧵

Step 1: This time I wanted to approach this zero knowledge target differently. So the first thing that I did was to reverse search the image. I got few results on Google & Yandex. Even they pointed out the season and episode number of Luther. #OSINT #geolocation #verification

Step 2: Here’s a tip (if you didn’t know already), IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Fandom Wiki pages could be super useful when you are investigating movies or TV shows.
#OSINT #geolocation #verification 🌐

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

"Ukrainians 🇺🇦 in the World Cup of Qatar 🇶🇦 arrested for spreading Nazi symbols."

This "report from Al Jazeera" gets 391K views on Telegram. 😲

Fake or real? Let's investigate!🧵👇1/...

#OSINT🔎
#Verification 📽️
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐
#WorldcupQatar2022 ⚽️

"Three drunken Ukrainian supporters were arrested in Qatar. The reason? They made a Nazi salute and vandalised posters at the Al Bayt stadium by drawing a Hitler moustache on the World Cup mascot La'eeb. When arrested, they showed no resistance."

Source: @AlJazeera Really? 🤔2/

@AlJazeera The video features Al Jazeera's official logo 👆, has high quality and looks professionally made.

Any video on aljazeera.com (right) has an almost identical layout to the video circulating on social media (left). 3/...

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semiosen.de/@kenwinkler

@kenwinkler

#RIPTwitter mit Hintergrund Überlegungen, oder der Tread zum Ende der Twitter 2.0 Welt auf Deutsch🧵

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#Musk irrt in Gewichtung Code vs Human Capital. Über Jahrzehnte gewachsene IT Infrastruktur Systeme können nicht rebootet werden, wie Smartphones. Mitarbeiter System Know How kann nur langsam ersetzt werden. Twitter ist IT Backbone Verfügbarkeit, nicht hippe Code Genialität. 2/6

Die Werbe-Einnahmen bei Twitter boten Kunden Image Effekten, nicht klassischer Multiplikation. Industrie wirbt auf Twitter, wie sie Kultur fördert. Nicht als Werbung, sondern als ergänzende Image Aktivität. Zentrales Anliegen sind Brand Safety & Reputation ▶️ Twitter Image. 3/6

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Osint For All

@AllForOsint

Hey #OSINT, here's an ultimate list of resources for REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH 🎑🌃🕵🕵️‍♀️ #verification #geolocation

A thread 🧵

1. Google Lens - lens.google/howlensworks/

2. Reverse Image Search - duplichecker.com/reverse-image-…

3. Tin Eye - tineye.com

4. Bing Images - bing.com/images/details…

5. Joy Buy - joybuy.com

#verification #geolocation #OSINT

6. Yandex Images - yandex.com/images/

7. Remove Bg - remove.bg

8. Reverse - labnol.org/reverse/

9. OCR - onlineocr.net

10. Ali Price - aliprice.com

#verification #geolocation #OSINT

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

"Happy Birthday for Vladimir Putin from Belgium 🇧🇪" from men in army uniform with guns. 🤔

Let's investigate this deleted TikTok-video. 🧵👇1/...

#OSINT🔎
#Verification 📽️
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐

This is the video. 📽️👀 2/...

https://twitter.com/Ray_net_ua/status/1579088857785831425

Is this a real video shot in Belgium❓

The video was previously uploaded on the social networking site TikTok on the account '@batyab.e.a.r', we can tell by the caption with the TikTok logo 🟨. 3/...

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Blockchain for Europe

@BlockchainforEU

#MiCA was not the only proposal completed last week, as 🇪🇺 institutions also finalised the Transfers-of-Funds Regulation (TFR).

The #TFR is meant to implement the @FATFWatch's #travelrule for transfers of #cryptoassets in the EU.

As always, check our 🧵for details:

1/18

First, a bit of #context:

The original Transfers-of-Funds Regulation was established in 2015 and introduced the requirement for financial institutions to accompany each #transfer of funds with verified information about the originator and beneficiary of the transfer.

2/18

As part of its 2020 Action Plan on preventing #moneylaundering and #terrorism financing, the @EU_Commission put forward a legislative proposal for a recast of the original #TFR text with the main objective of expanding traceability requirements to crypto-assets.

3/18

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

11.8M views for a TikTok of "a mosquito 🦟 with a number on its back". 😲

Is Bill Gates involved? (Spoiler: no.) Investigate! 🧵👇1/...

#OSINT🔎
#Verification 🎥
#HowToOSINT 🧐

#BillGates #TikTok #FactCheck #Weird

The Russian caption (albeit with typo) on this viral video reads: 'Guys who know where the numbers on mosquitoes come from (?)'.

Good question! Let's start with some basic Google... 2/...
tiktok.com/@dyunh519yip1/…

To find out the origin of the images, we google part of the Russian inscription.

So we come to an article on the Kazakh news site Ekspress.

That article features the same video and situates it in Kazakhstan. 🇰🇿3/...

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

On Facebook and Twitter hundreds of thousands saw a video of "Queen Elizabeth feeding vulnerable kids...😭😭😭"

Is this #QueenElizabeth "feeding humans as if they are animals"?

Let's find out! 👇🧵1/...

#OSINT🔎
#Verification 📽️
#HowToOSINT 🧐

We take a screenshot of the video and load it into the Russian search engine Yandex. #ReverseImageSearch

This brings us to a site with film recommendations. 🟥2/...

The French title of that page 👇 reads 'Annamite children collect sapèques for the pagoda of the ladies'.

Sapèque is an ancient Chinese coinage. 🪙

Annamite refers to a mountain range ⛰️ on the border of Vietnam 🇻🇳 and the neighbouring countries of Laos 🇱🇦 and Cambodia 🇰🇭. 3/

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

77K watched a clip of "tens of thousands of cattle suddenly dying after being given a vaccine" in #India 🇮🇳.

😲"Worldwide, they are destroying cattle." 🐄🤔

What do we see? Investigate! 🧵👇 1/...

#OSINT🔎
#Verification 📽️
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐

The tweet mentions the Indian region Gujarat, so we google with the search terms 'Gujarat dying cows'.

This leads us to an article by The Shillong Times, a local newspaper in north-east India, entitled 'More than 1200 cattle die of Lumpy Skin Disease in Gujarat'. 2/...

The article does not contain a video, but it does contain screenshots.

If we compare one of the screenshots from the article (right) with the Twitter video (0'26", left), details 🟨🟩🟥 appear to match.

➡️So the article seems to be about the same images. 3/...

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𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚔 𝚟𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚜𝚜

@henkvaness

In Image Search in Google, the Tools allow you only to search back one year. Let's fix that (1/3) #osint #google #verification

1. Type in your keywords in Google Images
2. Say you want to search between 2000 and 2009. Put at the end of the query after:2000 before:2009 (2/3)

To search for just one specific date range in months, do this.
1. Type in your keywords
2. Choose your period

You can also use this to search for a specific date (3/3).

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

🏔️Probably you have seen this breathtaking video of an avalanche. 😲 Everyone survived.

Where was it shot? 📍

Let’s do some #GeoLocation 🌍! 🧵👇 1/…

#OSINT 🔎
#Verification 🎥
#HowToOSINT 🧐

https://twitter.com/EverestToday/status/1546152848819232768

There are NO street signs, logos, number plates, trees or any other visual indications 🫤... except 🏔️🏔️.

This part of #GEOINT is new to me. 🤫

I used a mountain range only once for a fact check of migrants arriving in the Balearic Islands 👇: knack.be/factcheck/fact… 2/…

🥳Luckily a great TUTORIAL was released by Eyran Millis (@Istihbarat1800L) recently: linkedin.com/posts/eyran-mi… (as seen on Week in #OSINT by @Sector035)

With only this pdf-cocument 📄 I decided to give it a try. 3/…

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

216K views for a video of "Vatican Burning". 🇻🇦🔥

Fact or fiction? Investigate! 👇🧵 1/...

#OSINT 🔎
#Verification 🎥
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐

We can start with Reverse Image Search, but a very simple Google search for news about "Rome" and a "fire" might be a kick start too. 2/...

This brings us to an article by 🇧🇪 newspaper @destandaard with the title "Rome burns for the fourth time in a month: coincidence or malice?".

That article also included a tweet with the same video. However, there is NO mention of the Vatican City. 3/..

standaard.be/cnt/dmf2022071…

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

Footage of violence spreads like wildfire.🔥🔞

Often it’s used to blame a group of people: Ukrainian refugees in this case.

How to investigate such videos? I have 4⃣ easy steps for you. 🧵👇 1/...

#OSINT 🔎
#Verification 🎥
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐

We see a brawl in broad daylight on a public road. There are heavy blows, and when two cars with perpetrators drive off, someone is left lying on the ground, apparently unconscious.

It would be 'Ukrainians' in 'Austria'. 2/...

🔎1⃣ Find location

In the video, we see a flag of the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, but the images are usually located in the Austrian capital Vienna 🇦🇹.

We also see a statue of a horse on top of a building 🟥. 3/...

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

250K views for a terrifying video from Nukus, #Karakalpakstan.

A street "covered in the blood of protesters" or "red paint"?

Investigation by @Lotte_Lambrecht and me. 🧵👇1/...

#OSINT 🔎
#Verification 🎥
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐

@Lotte_Lambrecht Some context first.

Karakalpakstan is a semi-autonomous region in Uzbekistan, Central Asia.

Authorities in Uzbekistan have said that 18 people were killed during last week’s unrest after plans to strip Karakalpakstan of its autonomy. 2/...

eurasianet.org/uzbekistan-at-…

@Lotte_Lambrecht Thousands took to the streets in the biggest protest in Uzbekistan in recent years. President Mirzijoev declared a state of emergency.

Blood was certainly shed in Karakalpakstans capital, Nukus.

Official figuers confirm, we've seen a lot of gruesome videos of victims. 3/...

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

This photo collage got 22K likes on #Instagram: it shows a swimming pool 🏊 in #Kharkiv 🇺🇦 before and after Russian shelling 🇷🇺.

"Is this supposed to be the same place before and after?" 🤔

Let's find oud! 🧵👇 1/...

#OSINT 🔎
#Verification 📸
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐

We upload the image in Yandex. That search engine suggests that we are indeed seeing a swimming pool in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv 🟥.

Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine, close to the Russian border and has been under attack since the beginning of the war. 2/...

On a Ukrainian website with info about swimming pools in Kharkiv, we found the same photo. ✅

We also find an address: Alchevskyh Street 50 A. We search for that address on Google Maps and indeed we end up at the sports complex of the Polytechnic Institute. 🗺️ 3/...

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

11.8 M people have seen this video on #TikTok. 😲

A quiet scene at a beach 🏖️ with a huge explosion in the background. 🔥

What do we see? Investigate! 🧵👇 1/...

#OSINT🔎
#Verification 📽️
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐

🔊The woman filming curses while a man seems to say "he almost choked".

The caption of the video is добро пожаловать в Бердянск, meaning "Welcome to Berdyansk".

Berdyansk is a port city in Ukraine. 🇺🇦

You can watch the video here: tiktok.com/@thdsml/video/…

2/...

The video raises speculation.

According to some YouTube users, the explosion is the work of Ukrainian resistance fighters. 🪖

A Facebook post suggests that the video shows a "Russian military cargo ship being hit by Ukrainians". 🚢

What's true? 🤔 3/...

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

We all have seen Ukrainian tractors 🇺🇦 dragging Russian tanks 🇷🇺.

Where do they go? 🤔

We traced the “V5” in this #TikTok. It reveals France 🇫🇷 breaking the arms embargo against Russia.

Investigate! 🧵👇 1/…

#OSINT🔎
#Verification 📽️
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐

The TikTok video with this BMD-4, a landing combat vehicle, was shot west of Kyiv.

@sammy7000 from @GeoConfirmed found the location with Google Streetview. 📍✅

How? 📺👇2/…

@sammy7000 @GeoConfirmed The tractor with the “V5” drove away from the besieged towns of #Irpin and #Bucha in a southerly direction.

Russian vehicles with a “V” entered Ukraine from Belarus and fought around Irpin and Bucha.

You can check on this map from @Cen4infoRes . 3/…

maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/ru…

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

A Russian missile 🇷🇺 killed at least three Ukrainian citizens 🇺🇦 on April 16 in Kyiv.

This was NO ordinary attack: it was initiated by volunteers using #OSINT 🔎.

Investigation on ☠️ KILLER COORDINATES 📍

🧵👇 1/…

#Verification 📸🎥
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐

This missile strike in the east of Kyiv almost completely destroyed a warehouse.

Satellite imagery from @planet shows how the surrounding buildings were not damaged, indicating a precision bombing. 2/…

@planet 🇷🇺 The spokesman of the Russian army, Igor Konashenkov, stated that “a high-precision long-range aerial weapon had destroyed the production building of a tank factory in Kyiv (...)”. 3/…

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Blockchain for Europe

@BlockchainforEU

Latest UPDATE on the #TFR (Travel Rule) trilogue:

EU institutions are working to finalise the #TFR text to implement the #travelrule in Europe. Please find below the latest details. The aimed-for deadline for conclusion is still the first week of June.

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Key issues on table:

The provisions introduced by the @Europarl_EN requiring #verification of information for each transfer of assets, the additional requirements applied to transfers to #unhosted wallets and the #blacklist of non-compliant entities.

2/9

In the past weeks, the @EUCouncil has taken onboard the concerns from the blockchain & crypto #industry, as well as those of regulators and competent #authorities (!), that flagged the impracticality and unintended consequences these provisions would have.

3/9

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

"🇩🇪 Hamburg shootout between two groups of migrants. Several people received gunshot wounds [...]. There are several deaths."

In a short blurry video we hear gunshots. What do we see? Investigate! 👇1/...

#OSINT🔎
#Verification 📽️
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐

The tweet above only has little over 1K views, BUT the same video with the same text was uploaded multiple times on Twitter (left), Reddit, Telegram, Facebook (centre) and YouTube (right).

Over 100,000 people saw the images pass by in that context. 2/...

I didn't even try Reverse Image Search this time: the footage was very blurry so matches unlikely. 😟

I did ask German colleague @fiete_stegers to take a look.

He immediately pointed to the number plate of a car in the video 🟥. 3/...

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Brecht Castel

@brechtcastel

2M people have seen this picture on #Telegram (without blur): "🇷🇺 Russian soldier was chained [...] tortured and [...] set on fire while still alive."

What do we see? Investigate! 👇 1/...

#OSINT🔎
#Verification 📸
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐

Social media users use the photo (bottom left) to make comparisons between Ukraine and the terrorist group Islamic State (IS or ISIS). 2/...

The photo of the scorched body started circulating on 9 April at 21:20 via Danil Bezsonov's official Telegram channel.

He is the head of the press service of the 'people's republic' of #Donetsk, a separatist, Russian-backed region in eastern Ukraine. 3/...

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