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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🚨 It's here! Our ONLY SALE of the year! 🚨 Get 30% OFF ALL of our courses-including the new ones! 🤯 This Sale Ends on Cyber Monday: 2 December 2024 at 23:59 CET! Code: WHISPERS Let's see an overview of the classes included 🧵 #BlackFriday #OSINT #SOCMINT #HUMINT #OpenSourceIntelligence #Training

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

🚨 New class alert! Join us as we explore some of the darkest digital trails through our new training, "Investigating Shadows: Researching Telegram" Date: 24 May 2024 Live online, interactive webinar from 09:00 - 14:00 CET Class details & registration: digital-trails.academy/p/investigat...

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

The latest SIRIUS EU Electronic Evidence Situation Report by Europol is showcasing that the most valuable criminal evidence is being found within social media platforms #OSINT #SOCMINT Criminals leave digital trails that are left to be found by those who know how.

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Holiday season...the perfect time to look back and revisit another incredible #truecrime investigative story with lots of #OSINT , #SOCMINT and of course...human involvement, whistleblowers and suspense! You're in for a blast! www.dw.com/en/cannabis-...

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Cannabis Cowboys

Thousands of investors worldwide are now victims of JuicyFields – a scheme involving cannabis and crowdfunding. Who's behind it? What's the total damage? In this true crime investigation, DW tries t...

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Read in this incredible story how hitmen working for a criminal group active in Montenegro and Serbia used open-source intelligence techniques to track down and kill the leader of a rival clan as he hid out in Greece. www.occrp.org/en/balkan-co...

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How a Montenegrin Gang Used Open-Source Intelligence to Kill - OCCRP

Hitmen working for a criminal group active in Montenegro and Serbia used open-source intelligence techniques, poring over apartment listing sites, satellite images, and tourist photos posted online...

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Do you need to go beyond OSINT in an investigation and transition into HUMINT? This blog post discusses developing and tailoring the right sock puppet persona for your target. Use it to gain your subject's trust and to collect crucial information. 👇 christina-lekati.medium.com/from-sock-pu...

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From Sock Puppets to Puppet Masters

Creating honeypot sock puppet accounts

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Active sock puppets are designed to interact with targets. They are elaborate, involve higher risks & demand rigorous operational security. Still, they play a pivotal role in investigations when crucial information is unavailable through OSINT.

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Differentiating Between Passive & Active Reconnaissance: 🌐Passive: Accessing publicly available information without direct interaction with a target or triggering security alerts 🌐Active: Involves engaging with a target directly. You become noticed and deal with higher risks.

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Our Black Friday sale is here! Enjoy a 20% discount for our online class "Fundamentals of Cyber Investigations and Human Intelligence", with the code BLACKFRIDAY digital-trails.academy Valid from the 22nd-27th November (until Cyber Monday!)

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

In a rapidly evolving threat & criminal landscape, intelligence professionals are being called to not only stay sharp and updated, but have multiple aces up their sleeve. How do we gain a competitive advantage in investigative work? Read our blog below⬇️ christina-lekati.medium.com/why-for-toda...

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Why For Today’s Cyber Investigations We Need to Combine Intelligence Disciplines

by Christina Lekati & Samuel Lolagar

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Online infiltration operations require advanced sock puppet accounts. To get a criminal to "trust" your online persona and interact with it, you need to think like them and reflect some key elements. What is the right online persona to get the job done?

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OSINTgeek @osintgeek.de · 21/10/2023

Last chance to claim 20% off for the unique online training Fundamentals of Cyber Investigations and Human Intelligence by @christinalekati.bsky.social and me. Combine #OSINT, #SOCMINT, and #HUMINT. #Discount: DIGITALTRAILS Join @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social - Your guide to digital investigations

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Social Media Intelligence... What can we really find about a subject? An entire world unfolds right in front of your eyes, if you know what to look for...and how 👨🏻‍💻🕵🏻‍♀️ OSINT SOCMINT

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Can you dive into an OSINT investigation without applying proper OPSEC before? That's risky. Conduct SOCMINT on a subject & leave out the rest of their digital foortprint? Argh, no. Can you learn how to use & combine those important aspects & more? Yes, you can and you will ⬇️

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Did we mention? All participants that complete the class are eligible to receive: 🎓 Their certificate of completion 📕 Their Student Notebook 🎁 A little gift from us to accompany their future investigations!

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Digital Trails Academy @d1g1taltrails.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Ever since we started our class "Fundamentals of Cyber Investigations & Human Intelligence" we kept being asked to record it & provide it online. Thrilled to finally announce that our class has now a home under "Digital Trails" & is available as an online, recorded class! youtu.be/haBuQS26wX4?...

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Launch of Digital Trails Academy

Since we started our Fundamentals of Cyber Investigations & Human Intelligence class, we have been asked over and over again to record it and make it availab...

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