Weekly OSINT Review 2025.45. AI, Tracking, and Training — Another…

AI, Tracking, and Training — Another Week in the OSINT World.

Selected Training:

• Skopenow’s latest webinar: OSINT Workflows for Sanctions & Restricted Party Exposure
  When: Wed, 12 Nov, 11:00 ET
  Where: Virtual, Register here

• My OSINT Training will have a sale on their course bundles from 17–30 November. This includes their OSINT Immersion Bundle (16 hours) and the All-OSINT Course Bundle (50+ hours). Click for more info to get in on this once-a-year sale. Get on their email distro to stay up to date on sale info and other training goodies.
• Swimlane’s Ghosts of Incidents Past looks at some of the most infamous security breaches in recent history and how we can learn from them today.
  When: On Demand
  Where: BrightTalk Platform

• Evolving Surveillance Threats: Risks to Governments and Businesses; experts from Silobreaker and Dragonfly provide a live intelligence briefing on the evolving landscape of cyberespionage, digital repression, and state surveillance.
  When: Thurs, 13 Nov, 11:00 ET
  Where: BrightTalk Platform

• The Global Investigative Journalism Network’s (GIJN) Tips and Tools for Uncovering Online Scams webinar is now available on YouTube:

Recommended Reading/Referencing:

• WeChat AI Field Guide: From the ChinaTalk Substack, a step-by-step guide to understanding AI companies and individuals on WeChat. Where should you go on WeChat (and on the broader Chinese internet) to learn about what’s happening in AI? The ChinaTalk Cinematic Universe brings you a comprehensive guide to following AI on WeChat, featuring:
  – How to make your WeChat work like Substack;
  – Various types of AI media outlets;
  – And how to read beyond WeChat.

• Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content: From the GIJN, Henk van Ess provides a guide that teaches researchers how to identify AI-generated content under deadline pressure, offering seven advanced detection categories every reporter needs to master.

• Threat Intelligence Essentials: Best Practices for CTI Pros: From RSS company Feedly comes a suite of guides, articles, and other best practices for those in the CTI realm. This site covers OSINT, prompting techniques, geopolitical risk, social engineering, and much more.

• SIPRI Arms Transfer Database: The SIPRI Arms Transfers Database contains information on all transfers of major conventional arms from 1950 to the most recent full calendar year. It is a unique resource for researchers, policymakers, analysts, the media, and civil society interested in monitoring and measuring the international flow of major conventional arms.

• Have you ever taken a close look at what is following you around the Internet, either when you’re scrolling on your phone or when you’re conducting OSINT research? Check out this interesting piece from Lifehacker on the available tools that monitor who’s monitoring you. It’s always a good idea to conduct these audits every few months.