Essential OSINT tools for journalists investigating air pollution

- tracking real-time air pollution
- identifying pollution sources
- identifying the polluters
- tracking air pollution over time


https://ijnet.org/en/story/essential-osint-tools-journalists-investigating-air-pollution

Author Renjani Sari

Ubikron

You probably know Roelof Temmingh as the man who created Maltego 17 years ago, and who has been working on the Vortimo tool for the last few years.

A few days ago he released Ubikron, a tool for tracking, tagging, and saving web investigations

https://www.ubikron.com/

BountyOS

New Linux distro for different #cybersecurity tasks:

- based on Debian 12
- 75+ tools
- simple installation (ISO file)

https://bountyos.github.io/

Creator Sirat Sami (analyz3r) (5K+ reputation on HackerOne!)

Domain Hunter

Search domains by keywords and filter by TLD (10M+ domains mapped).

50 results free, export to JSON + quick links to Shodan, VirusTotal, URLScanIO and URLVoid.

domainhunter.pro

HTML Inspector

Chrome extension from x.com/nononsenseintel to search sensitive data in opened tab HTML code:

HTML/JavaScript code comments
File names/paths of images/documents
robots.txt, ads.txt, app-ads.txt
Meta tags/HTML attributes
Sitemap
JSON-LD

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/html-inspector/fpaahdcndgfpbbddmgckaifkfljkfkhd

Subscrape

#Python tool to search subdomains and extract titles, urls, emails, tokens and any other information from the HTML code of their main pages using regular expressions.

https://github.com/cesc0sec/SecResearch

#osint

R00M 101 OSINT Tools Directory

113 + tools (now focused in #socmint)

For social media intelligence, archiving, automation, downloading, monitoring, scraping, searching and more.


https://r00m101.com/tools

Awesome BlackHat Arsenal

Collection of tools featured in Black Hat Arsenal events (2015-2025, Asia, Europe, USA, Canada, MEA):

- Lab Tools
- Web/AppSec
- Red Teaming
- #OSINT
- Blue Team & Detection
- Reverse Engineering


https://github.com/elbraino/awesome-blackhat-arsenal

Have LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation

Test of 20 models against 25 photos, rating each from 0 (red) to 10 (dark green) for accuracy in geolocating the images

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2025/06/06/have-llms-finally-mastered-geolocation/?utm_source=

#osint #geoint

SkyTruth

Free online map that help to find oil slicks in satellite imagery (with LLM) and identify vessels/oil platforms that may be responsible for those slicks.

https://cerulean.skytruth.org/

#osint #geoint

GeoGuessr Alternatives

geohub.gg
hideandseek.world
openguessr.com


#geoint

OnionLand

Darknet search engine (work in simple browser) + a series of article-guides on using Tor and other methods to access the .onion domain zone.

https://onionland.io/

Open Measures

Free online tool to analyse keyword post statistics across social media platforms (BlueSky, 4chan, Fediverse, Telegram, VK, Rutube, Rumble Video and others).

public.openmeasures.io

#osint #socmint

MerkleMap

A tool to search for domains using wildcards. Useful both for phishing and typosquatting investigations and for finding subdomains/linked sites.

Partially free. May work with a slight delay.

merklemap.com

#osint #CTI

PageCached

A simple and free online service for finding old versions of web pages in search engine caches and web archives.

https://pagecached.com/

#osint #socmint

VK WATCH

Face photo search tool for the VK social network (over a billion profiles worldwide).

https://vk.watch/

(don't pay to view profiles, just copy ID from VKwatch's URL and open profile by ID in VK)

#osint #socmint

Story Map

Free online tool for creating map-based visualisations (with captions, markers, photos). A lot of different options and customisations.

https://storymap.knightlab.com/

#geoint #visualisation

Blockchain OSINT

- Blockchain Explorers
- Crypto OSINT Analysis & Learning
- APIs & Data Sources
- Compliance, Risk, & AML Resources
- Learning Resources
- Investigation Workflows

https://github.com/codeluu/blockchain-osint

#osint #crypto

Rhino User Checker

Free online tool (looks like #cli, but it's a web app) to search profiles by username on different social networks. Export advanced profile data (avatars, descriptions, registration dates, etc.) to JSON.

https://usercheck.oscarzulu.org/

#osint #socmint

BadDNS

#Python #cli tool for detecting domain/subdomain takeovers (all kinds).

- check for dangling CNAME records, NS records, MX records

- enumerate subdomains by NSEC-walking

- check HTML content + TXT record content

https://github.com/blacklanternsecurity/baddns

FAKJS

Super fast #go tool that finds different sensitive data in JavaScript files:

- API keys, tokens, etc.
- Internal or hidden endpoints
- Configuration data
- Potential indicators of exposed logic or backend connections

https://github.com/thd3r/fakjs