🕵🏻 Sockpuppets are often essential in OSINT — but building them is tricky. That’s why we’re excited to welcome Espen Ringstad, OSINT expert and advisory board member at SockPuppet, as our next OScon speaker! Curious about digital tradecraft? Don’t miss it: eventfrog.ch/oscon25

🕵🏻 Alexander Wenger passion for true crime stories and OSINT techniques makes his talk the perfect opener to set the vibe for OScon. If you’re fascinated by real investigations and want to see OSINT in action, you can get your ticket here: eventfrog.ch/en/p/courses...

🚨 Tickets are now available! Secure your seat at our very first OSINT conference! eventfrog.ch/oscon25 Our goal is to highlight a wide range of OSINT perspectives so that everyone from curious newcomers to professionals from different fields can walk away with valuable insights and inspiration.

🕵🏻 We had the great pleasure and honour to be guests on the Jill Wick Cyber & Psych podscast to talk about OSINT and in particular, OSINT Switzerland. If you’re curious and want to learn more, you can find the full interview (in German) here: www.newsletter.jillwick.com/p/folge-7-os...

🕵🏻 More than 20 engaged OSINTers joined last week’s Playdate to take on the brilliant challenges created by Sofia Santos for the Bellingcat anniversary, and they nailed it! 🙌 A huge thank you to CYREN ZH! Looking forward to seeing many of you (and hopefully some new faces) at the next one!

🚨 Next Friday the second OSINT Playdate takes place, an afternoon full of puzzles, hands-on challenges, and knowledge sharing with fellow OSINT enthusiasts 🕵️‍♂️🔍 📅 Friday, July 4th 🕒 15:00 to 17:00 📍 CYREN ZH in Zürich 👉 Grab one of the last spots here: lnkd.in/eCqJP2GX

🕵🏻 We’re excited to announce the second OSINT Playdate in collaboration with our friends at CYREN ZH! 📅 Friday, July 4th 🕒 15:00 – 17:00 📍 Hosted by CYREN ZH in Zürich Curious to join? Get all the info and register here: osintswitzerland.ch/events/playd... Hope to see you there!

🎉 We’re proud and excited to officially present OScon: our first OSINT Conference in Switzerland! After founding the association last year, we’re taking the next step: a half-day, in-person event dedicated to Open Source Intelligence. 📍 Save the date: Friday, 14 November 2025 Volkshaus Zürich

❓ Where are the boundaries when using publicly available information in Switzerland? 🔍 In four episodes, Gregor Münch and @martinsteiger.ch dive into how OSINT is reshaping the work of criminal defense lawyers, from research to courtroom strategy. 👉 Episodes are in Swiss German.

🎉 We’re excited to announce that our official merch store is now live. You can check it out here: boxprint.store/osintswitzer... ✨ We have personally tested the quality of the products and really like how they look and feel! Have a nice start to the week!

🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome Loránd Bodó to our Advisory Board! Loránd is a well-respected name in the OSINT world, not only for his expertise in researching violent extremist and terrorist entities online, but also for his engagement in the OSINT community. Welcome aboard, Loránd!

🕵🏻‍♀️ Last Saturday it was time for another Trace Labs OSINT Search Party! Three teams of OSINT Switzerland members were able to participate. 🙏 We would like to thank everyone who was able to use their OSINT skills for a good cause. Here is a brief summary of how our teams performed!

🕵🏻 Yesterday we had our first General Assembly and it was amazing to reconnect with our members. We discussed and presented several topics about what has happened so far and what will happen in the near future of OSINT Switzerland.

The next Trace Labs will take place on 19th April at 16:00. 🚨 Members of our association will have the opportunity to attend a briefing session on Discord at 15:00. We'll be sharing tips and tricks on how to be more effective during the competition and make a greater contribution to a good cause.

We found that all images sent via LinkedIn messages still contain the original metadata. From now on, keep in mind that: 👉 When you send a picture to a LinkedIn contact, the message may contain more details and information than you actually want!

Learning OSINT on your own is hard, but a good group of peers will support you. Here are some of the best OSINT communities to be part of: @osint-community.bsky.social, @osintswitzerland.bsky.social, @projectowlosint.bsky.social Get more info on our communities page: osintteam.com/communities/

Together with CYREN ZH we're introducing a series of OSINT playdates throughout the year. The exercises will focus on solving, exchanging different approaches, techniques, and best practices, and of course, to meet likeminded OSINTers.

🕵🏻 We found a way to identify scheduled post on LinkedIn. All you need is for the post to contain an image, video or other type of document. ● Extract upload date of image/video included into the post ● Extract the date and time of the post ● If the dates are very different, it is a scheduled post

We discovered a way to find out the date when a profile picture was last uploaded or edited: ● Right-click on the image ● Save the image ● Parse the filename into a Unix timestamp Even more fascinating is that this technique allows you to extract the exact date when any type of media was uploaded

🔎 We stumbled across a technique that allows to extract the exact date and time of a LinkedIn post on ● Get the post ID from the URL ● Convert the post ID to binary ● Convert the 41 "left-most" bits of the binary back to decimal ● Parse the decimal into a Unix Timestamp. ● That's it!

We would like to thank everyone who attended our first OSINT Intro Workshop. We enjoyed solving challenges with you and meeting some of you in person for the first time! We would also like to thank CYREN ZH for the opportunity to hold the workshop in such a beautiful location and for the support!

All places for the first hands-on workshop are SOLD OUT! For our members and CYREN ZH students, it's still possible to attend via the Discord member space stage. We're really excited and can't wait to meet you. We will learn from each other and solve some tricky challenges together. See you there!

🕵🏻 As OSINTers, we are constantly learning new methods of gathering and deriving additional information in different ways. It's always important to test the effectiveness and correctness of the technique on test data (i.e. a fake account) where you know what the expected result should be.

🎉 #2024Wrapped 🎉 What an incredible year it’s been for our association! Here's what we’ve achieved together in just a few short months since our founding on September 5th, 2024.

🕵🏻 The mystery is solved and X-Mas is saved, thanks to over 500 participants! It was a wild ride chasing a thief around the globe using only critical thinking and OSINT techniques. It took a lot of skill, perseverance and dedication.

🎅🏻 The race is still open as we enter the final stage of our Santa CTF. What a run! The contestant had to learn and use several different OSINT techniques in the last weeks and think outside the box to get closer to the thief!

🚨 Join us for an Exclusive Hands-On OSINT Workshop! 📅 January 31st, 2025 - 14:00 to 17:00 👥 Who’s It For: Members of OSINT Switzerland and students of CYREN ZH 📍Rämistrasse 69, 8001 Zürich & Streamed Online

What an emotional race! The line between frustration and joy is very, very thin for all 450+ CTF's participants. To get a glimpse of it, all you have to do is join our Discord channel.