Hours of video footage to go thru for #OSINT project? Lil thread on speedy analysis tools
Imaging: you analyze riots of ydays Covid protests in Viennas #w1812. Rioters attacked police. Searching YTube for footage >20 min recorded livestream of “LIVE: Demo in Wien”, 29k views (0)
(2) We download the video via ur Youtube downloader of choice (list below). Our video is nearly 3 hours long, worth checking the tool MSS #VideoIndexer Azur Media Analyser for Media @Video_Indexer. Open free account. Upload hour long-footage free videoindexer.ai/media/library
(3) MS #VideoIndexer packs a punch: search ppl in video, OCRing & item recog. & trace ppl paths. Detect, group & recog ppl, perfect for cross-refcing of right extremism joining corona demos. The label tag "law Enforcement" reveals scene of barrier breaking
(4)We can also compare footage of with Demo on 11.12.2021, where rightwigs Rutter or convicted rwing Küssels were present & where journalists were attacked. We find one aggressive attendant via MS video tool
(5) Audio: event detection classifies audio effects in the non-speech segments of the content. Caustic events inc “Gunshot, Glass shatter, Alarm, Siren, Explosion, Dog Bark, Screaming, Laughter, Crowd reactions sa cheering, clapping and booing & silence” techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-media…
(6) There is also a livestream chat in YouTube video, during the Vienna demo. Use Python3 lib Chat-replay-downloader via “pip3 install chat-replay-downloader” & export the full chat via CSV: “chat_replay_downloader '' --format_file csv -o chat-replay.csv”
(7) if u aim really high on analysing livestream chat content, a free account of MeaningCloud allows machine learning to extract topics, analyze sentiments, identify lang, cluster/categorize text. Just set up a Google sheet, use license key, and Boom, analyze text.
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Howdy, fellow #OSINT #Journalist. I want to share with you my latest checklist for #OSINT #company investigations.
This way, you'll ensure you check all boxes when investigating... Links contain my go-to sources.... let's dive in (Version 1.0) - PDF at the end of 🧵
We start with a company name... First up, 1. Gain a general overview of what you are dealing with. Google dork the firm, use a corporate wiki, understand jurisdiction & company form -> then check with business registries, that might be responsible...
4. Check for leaked data on the company and owner/managers: If you are suspecting a shell company, check OCCRP and @ICIJ Offshore leaks. If personal company data, search for ransomware leaks or country specific DBs (e.g for Russia). A list of my favs ...
Wagner's operation in UA may have distracted the reporting, but the story continues, with it the expansion, possible atrocities, the hunt for minerals and the looting... funding the war in Ukraine
In mid-September 2022, 14 civilians of the Tuareg, a Berber ethnic minority, are allegedly killed by Wagner soldiers. Some 6km from a place called Nani, central Mali. Wagner was building a presence there, for months. Bodies are being shoved into a crater..
...the crater was created earlier when a soldier allegedly ran over it with his motorcycle, which then exploded. As a response, civilians were killed and stuffed in this crater...
The violent & disgraceful behavior by Wagner mirrors to details of the massacre analyzed by the UN
Reiche in Privatjets wollen vermeiden, dass man ihnen auf die Finger schaut. Bei einer monatelangen Datenrecherche zusammen mit dem NDR zu #Privatjet Flügen kam das auch heraus -
Ein🧵 dazu wie Reiche im wortwörtlichen Sinne unter dem Radar fliegen
Lang ist es nicht her, im Dezember erst, dass Elon Msk den Twitter Account von Jack Sweeney, die Person hinter einer Jet-Tracking-App von Msk Flugzeug, "geshadowbanned" hat.
Was wir in DE finden, spiegelt das Problem etwas. Vollständige PJ Flüge Datensätze bleiben rar...
000de€ kosten diese granularen Daten, wenn vollständig. Sie werden von Firmen gehortet. Hinzukommt: Daten werden nicht als klar "Privatjets" ausgewiesen. Dazu brauchten wir viel Zeit. Mit dem Chaos der schwammigen Klassifizierung kommen Fehler in der Berechnung der Emissionen
On August 26, 2022, a bomb hits the colorful playground of RES kids Paradise in Mekelle, Ethiopia. Frames of the climbing area, painted walls, iron stilts, it's all that remains. The attack showed what the warring parties, that fought a bloody war in Tigray, were capable of
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A woman, let's call her Ayana, worked 5km away, heard the sound of the explosions & saw a fighter jet fly away after the impact. She found the charred bodies of two dead children on site. One of the first videos showed more bodies ethiopiatigraywar.com/incident.php?i…
"Yes, I heard bombs & the sound of the jet & me as an aid worker & some of my co-workers gathered with their families at that place, at ResKidsParadise, where I saw that it was totally devastated & mothers were crying, looking for their children who were playing there", told me
Went on #eBay to shop for 👶 baby clothes. Found instead people peddling Ukraine war trophies 🏆, uniform & equipment from dead Russian soldiers 🙀. One is selling war trophies labelled with "traces of soldier's blood"...
An #OSINT thread
Getting more common for those ads on the web to appear: Advertising the sale of #wartrophies from the 2022 Ukrainian war is trendy, but morally questionable, some entertaining. Some may be fake, like the bid for a Russian Howitzer, probably to mock the occupiers
Others seem a bit more real. Bottomline: There is a lively trade on the Internet of examples where Ukrainians trying to sell booty of Russian soldiers to collectors abroad, and business is flourishing... Especially #eBay seems a platform of choice
What seems to be Russian trolls fabricated false media websites and even videos. We worked with two sites that emulate Sueddeutsche Zeitung. #osint 🧵 how the actors went about...
First, I have to give it to the trolls, the site looks stunningly similar to the real thing. Logos, webicons, the js., the CSS, the links to the real site, all neatly in place. 1)
A search for the domain, in this case ...eutsche.me or ..eutsche.online will link back to the real main page.
The top level domains are cheap GoDaddy domains, proxied via the US company #Cloudfare, to disguise the identity of the trolls... sneaky 👟
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