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If you’re not competing in the UK OSINT CTF, what are you doing with your spare time? Touching grass? Suspicious 🔎
How I Solved Operation Broken Shield (OSINT CTF)
Designed by @OSINT_Community
This write up covers the methodology, tools, and investigation process behind solving all five phases of the challenge.
#CyberSecurity #OSINT @d4rk_intel
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🚨 The rise and controversy of predator hunters
@AricToler will be taking the stage at the Global OSINT Conference in October.
Former @Bellingcat Director of Training & Research, now at @nytimes, his work spans war crimes, Russian ops, and Pentagon leaks.
Tickets 👇
🕵️ Announcement: Launching the Global OSINT Conference
📅 5th Oct 2026
📍 London
Co-organised with the @PoliceDigital.
Policing. Defence. Journalism. Private intelligence. One stage.
Partnered with @C4ADS and the BISI.
🎟️ Tickets & more information below 👇
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🕵️ OPERATION POLLY CTF is live...
4-stage OSINT challenge:
Start with a name → uncover family via the right source → trace a Wikipedia editor → find when their account was created.
Can you complete the chain? 👇
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🔎 A new #OSINT challenge is live.
Conduct a jurisdiction risk assessment on Carvell Island.
Built by Public Insights, this custom platform mirrors a genuine intelligence investigation with real-world ambiguity.
Think like an investigator? Prove it: ctf.publicinsights.uk
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New CTF challenge just dropped 🔎
You’re working with a whistleblower
Inside a militant privacy group
Feeding intel to an investigative tech podcast
Somewhere in the noise is the truth
Can you find it?
Try the challenge 👇
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🚗 Vehicles leave trails online.
In this Week 9 walkthrough of the UK OSINT Community CTF, @AccessOSINT breaks down how investigators can analyse vehicle-related clues and move from scattered data points to real leads.
Watch the walkthrough 👇
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📍 IMPORTANT! Venue Update: UK OSINT Community Evening Social – 4 March
We’ve upgraded to Market Halls Oxford Street.
Bigger space = everyone on the waitlist is now accepted ✅
Please share so no one turns up at the wrong place.
Spots are open again, join the waitlist now 👇
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🐍 Python for OSINT Guide
Week 7 CTF walkthrough shows how to use Python to analyse structured datasets and extract the right answer.
Watch @AccessOSINT 👇
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🖼️ Think you understand OSINT image analysis?
@AccessOSINT breaks down last week’s UK OSINT Community CTF in this full walkthrough, covering real tradecraft in image manipulation and investigative technique.
Watch now 👇 piped.video/watch?v=eRlRqBck…
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@OSINT_Community > OPERATION SERPIENTE
Automating OSINT Investigations
#Challenge_1: Coordinated Social Media Network
• 20k JSONL comments
• Parsed line‑by‑line, grouped by user_id, counted unique post authors
#OSINT #UK_OSINT #Cybersecurity #DFIR #Python
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🕵️ The UK OSINT Community CTF at @cardiffuni
Joshua (@AccessOSINT) showcased how our CTF helps students build real OSINT skills and explore intelligence careers as part of Elaine Haigh’s Digital Dragons series.
Practical tradecraft in action.
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UK OSINT CTF WALKTHROUGH VIDEOS
Tracking Missing Persons OSINT Guide
Geolocation OSINT Investigations Guide
Suspect and Car Investigations
OSINT Image Analysis Guide
China OSINT Investigations guide
piped.video/@UKOSINT/videos
@OSINT_Community
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📘 Tracking Missing Persons with OSINT | Week 5 Guide
A structured walkthrough by @AccessOSINT, designed with Lewis Murphy, covering identity pivots, timelines, and defensible investigative methods.
Prizes sponsored by @ForensicOSINT
Watch now 👇 piped.video/watch?v=MbANd-z5…
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🕵️ Announcement: Launching the Global OSINT Conference
📅 5th Oct 2026
📍 London
Co-organised with the @PoliceDigital.
Policing. Defence. Journalism. Private intelligence. One stage.
Partnered with @C4ADS and the BISI.
🎟️ Tickets & more information below 👇
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📍 Want to sharpen your geolocation skills?
@AccessOSINT walks through Week 4 of the UK OSINT Community CTF, demonstrating a structured investigative approach from image to conclusion.
piped.video/watch?v=WPaSRJ8x…
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🎓 OSINT at Oxford.
Yesterday, the UK OSINT Community delivered a live investigative session at the University of Oxford with @AccessOSINT of OSINT Praxis, hosted by the Emerging Threats Group.
Real cases. Live challenges. Practical digital exposure advice.
More to follow.
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🚨 New OSINT CTF live.
“The Disappearance of Owain Hughes” by @AccessOSINT & Lewis Murphy.
🏆 Top 3 win 6 weeks Elite @ForensicOSINT worth $150+
Start solving 👇
ctf.osint.uk
Discuss the CTF on our Discord (get clues & tricks): osint.uk/discord
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🎓 OSINT at Oxford University, 9 February
@AccessOSINT of OSINT Praxis joins the UK OSINT Community for an interactive OSINT event at @UniofOxford, as part of the Emerging Threats Group.
Live challenges and real-world OSINT in practice.
👇 Get tickets
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Hands-on China OSINT training 🇨🇳🔎
Week 3 of the UK OSINT CTF focuses on real investigative constraints, not ideal conditions.
Training walkthrough by @AccessOSINT.
CTF designed by Eva Prokofiev (EPCYBER).
Watch the walkthrough 👇
piped.video/watch?v=ZU4oMkfx…
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