#osint

#osint

The Harvester gathers public data about domains and organizations. It pulls names, email addresses, subdomains, IPs, and URLs from search engines and online services. It supports many sources like Google, Bing, Baidu, Shodan, and public certificate records. This lets investigators build an initial map of the external attack surface quickly. They can run simple commands to collect results into files for later review. The Harvester works well for early reconnaissance in penetration tests and threat assessments.

Thanks to the rise of cryptocurrency, it's never been easier to place inscrutable bets with shady grey-market bookies. The kingpin presiding over this dubious corner of the gaming industry is currently Polymarket, a crypto platform which lets users place bets on the outcomes of weather catastrophes, political elections, and economic crises. Aided in large part by Trump administration deregulations, Polymarket has become the go-to for bettors eager to cash in on geopolitical strife.

The missives are undersigned by firms like the Babel Street and the ANDECO Institute, which sell risk and threat intelligence services derived from commercially or publicly available information that's not necessarily gathered through more covert means available to spy agencies. Graphika, which performs social media network analysis to identify disinformation campaigns, is also a signatory. The measures, housed in Title 6 of the House Intelligence Committee's version of the fiscal year 2026 Intelligence Authorization Act, are also supported by the OSINT Foundation, a professional association of open-source practitioners in the U.S. intelligence community.