#1754360: Episode 23: Locking Down Your OpSec, Mapping Online Communities, and Mining Vinted for OSINT
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In Episode 23 of The OSINT Podcast, host Jake Creps covers three issues spanning operational security, community discovery, and platform-specific investigation technique. The episode opens with OpSec for investigators: why your own digital footprint is just as exposable as anyone else’s, how small habits like reused usernames or logged-in browser sessions create attribution risk, and why identity separation between your personal and investigative accounts is non-negotiable. From there, the conversation turns to Waybien, a community search engine that indexes public groups and channels across Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Discord, and Slack from a single interface, useful for lead generation, SOCMINT work, and mapping where a subject is being discussed across platforms. The episode closes with a technical walkthrough of Vinted, the secondhand fashion marketplace, tracing what the sign-up flow, public profiles, and underlying APIs reveal about sellers, alongside a roundup of new OSINT tools and a story about a GitHub-based threat actor undone by, of all things, a photo of his cat. Highlights 🕵️ OpSec fundamentals: digital footprint awareness, identity separation, and data exposure through browser autofill and saved sessions 🧵 Waybien: cross-platform community discovery across Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Discord, and Slack 🛍️ A technical deep dive into Vinted’s sign-up flow, public profile data, and underlying search API 🐱 How OSINT and threat hunting traced a GitHub-based supply chain attacker through a single alias — and his cat 🎣 Fake Claude download pages surfacing as user-generated artifacts, promoted through paid Google Ads 🧰 New tools: Vinosinted (Vinted recon), EmailOSINT (reverse email lookup), and Osiris (real-time intelligence dashboard) |
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| More info: | https://osintnewsletter.com/p/episode-23-locking-down-your-opsec?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1442182&post_id=215855819&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3pnkkr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email |
| Date added | Sept. 18, 2026, 5:58 p.m. |
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| Source | osintnewsletter |
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