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@SZ Journalist, Open-Source Investigations @SZ_Investigativ #OSINT #verification
Sep 24 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
NEW🧵 Russian Spy Ships Project - Espionage at Sea
1/ research ships with armed soldiers syst spy on gas pipelines, datacables, wind farms, & military infrastructure in the Baltic & North Seas. This is revealed by our int. #investigation involving journalists from six countries 2/ October 2023: The containership #NewnewPolarBear crosses the #Balticconnector #Pipeline and slows down abruptly. Its anchor severely damages the pipeline.
Jun 26 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🚨NEW: Russia bleeds tanks. We wanted to know how long Russia can hold out with the current losses, using heaps of old tanks from military bases. And used #AI to count & analyze fading tanks stocks. Visual investigation as @SZ_Investigativ together with @Se_Gier & @SZ visual team We looked at the biggest military bases on land, abt 87, to understand why experts say that out of 5 tanks Russia sends to the UKR font 4 are used/refurbished. "86% of 1530 tanks delivered were refurbished tanks from storage". Michael Gjerstad,
@IISS_org. Stocks aren't bottomless
Sep 21, 2023 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
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 🧵 Image 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... Image
May 22, 2023 • 19 tweets • 9 min read
#WagnerGroup PMC is still active in #Mali.

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

An update: #OISNT thread Image 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.. Image
Jan 12, 2023 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
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...
Jan 11, 2023 • 22 tweets • 8 min read
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
A🧵 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… Image
Oct 25, 2022 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
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 Image 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 Image
Sep 6, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
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.
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Mar 12, 2022 • 21 tweets • 15 min read
#Satellite investigations around #Ukraine crisis has many facets, opportunities & problems.
Short thread on potential for more research & findings
#OSINT, #Intelligence, #Ukraine️
#Journalism 1) Most obvious: Showing the sheer extent of destruction from high-res satellite images. Like here (my video eval video) on a destroyed warehouse in Stoyanka, Kyiv region. Maxar, March 10.
Feb 24, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
#OSINT protips: Incredibly useful at this stage for journalists assessing the situation in UKR: Street Cameras... Thread Image Today showed unmistakably what livestreaming street cameras can offer for open source investigators/Journalists. How to find them?
Search on Youtube for live camera on the filter, for "Камера"... Image
Feb 23, 2022 • 9 tweets • 9 min read
The Russian-triggered Ukraine border tension involves increasingly incidents around critical infrastructures, especially around #pipelines
A short #OSINT thread on working with data on pipelines and tools that help in the process
(1) Yesterday, a UKR armed forces officer posts a video of a burning electricity plant. Filmed @ Luhansʹka Power Station in Schastia, as @bibken geolocated, we find the name of the assoc. city mentioned. Then google dork the plant. Rest is SOP #GEOSINT (2)
Feb 23, 2022 • 9 tweets • 8 min read
On July 15, 2021, one girl, three boys, a doctor, an engineer, and a bunch of other civilians get killed in an Afghan airstrike. The reconnaissance plane coordinating bombing w. AAF fighter jets spotted & IDed as a Pilatus PC-12
Our #swissarms story out, a quick #OSINT thread Video analysis shows a range of bombing videos tweeted by @ro_modafghan. Crosshair & other details such as the flying speed, verified via MGRS calculator (legallandconverter.com/p50.html) corroborate type of reconnaissance plane used.
Pic: MOD boasting w PC12 plane (2)
Feb 17, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Investigating crypto scams? Here is some of my go-to #OSINT toolbox for journalists (Thread) Image First: I check Etherscan to get a feel for transactions, their volume & frequency of trading.
Discrepancies may occur if coins receive few big amounts & lots of small ones. The big hitters could be a sign of something odd at play. CSV export posbl
etherscan.io/address/your-a… ImageImage
Feb 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Quick #OSINT Thread: how to determine the exact location of a photographer, time, date... from an image and a few other details. A few months back I ran some training on the matter... Where is this? (1) (2) Reverse image search of the little red sign, reveals its owner, the SBB, Swiss rail service. Check IP address via IP Lookup, which narrows it down to Zürich City... (use a web scraper to create a polygon area for location estimates) iplocation.net
#OSINT
Feb 9, 2022 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
Als Pfleger impffrei arbeiten? Unglaublich! dafür wirbt eine Impf-skeptische Jobbörse(n) "impffrei(.)work"
Eine News Analyse zeigt: nicht nur das hier unzweifelhaft auf #Disinformation verwiesen wird, sondern auch Indizien gefunden werden von wem sie stammen könnte (1) Thread: Auf Twitter Aktiv wieder seit Nov 21, Impffrei(.)work vermittelt ungeimpfte auch in Pflege-jobs, auch in der #Schweiz. Platform Linktr zeigt impffreiwork hat min. 7 Ersatzdomains, auch auf via Tor/Darkweb. Eine Testspende zeigt ImpffreiWork ist in Italien registriert (2)
Feb 8, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Thread: Biden threatens to end #NordStream2. Germany's chancellor dares not to object. The US has had objections since 2018. So did Ukraine's Ex-President (2014-2019) saying “lifting of sanctions against Russia's Nord Stream 2 is an alarming signal to the Ukrainian government”... Image ...👀 on Nord Stream 2 AG headquartered in Zug, 🇨🇭, plays now an integral role. For the German part of the pipeline, the company founded a new subsidiary, the "Gas for Europe GmbH", only after the German regulator demanded it. We see the entrance on Google images, in 2018... ImageImage
Dec 19, 2021 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
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