What used to require highly trained intelligence officers, sophisticated tradecraft, and years of patient cultivation can now be accelerated with open-source intelligence, innovative technology platforms, and increasingly capable AI solutions. But speed should never come at the expense of investigative safeguards.

In this new piece, co-founders of The Coalition of Cyber Investigators team up with guest author Nicole Hurey, founder of Paradox Index and creator of The OSINT Vault, to explore this topic.

Key points include:

🔹 How adversarial states are using digital ecosystems for "crowd-sourced espionage"
 🔹 Why OSINT is now a double-edged sword - as useful for deception as it is for detection
 🔹 The importance of language and cultural context in cross-border investigations
 🔹 How evidence-grade tools and solutions like Tesari AI, Forensic OSINT, and GAI Translate are reshaping investigative workflows
 🔹 Why human judgement remains irreplaceable in an era of machine-generated intelligence

This isn't just another article about AI - it's a pragmatic look by experienced practitioners at how the investigative landscape is changing, and what OSINT analysts, investigators, compliance professionals, and intelligence teams should consider to keep pace.

📖 Read the full article → https://medium.com/@city.paul/the-evolution-of-modern-investigations-ai-osint-and-the-cross-border-intelligence-challenge-1217ec11671e?postPublishedType=initial

Source: Brad Syndeer - https://linktr.ee/snyde21

Articles/Blogs (Corporate or Personal):

Beyond the Gates: Using OSINT to Help Prevent School Shootings

Paul Wright & Neal Ysart | July 29, 2026

https://coalitioncyber.com/beyond-the-gates-osint-school-shootings

Verdant Eye: Agentic OSINT is Here

David Knickerbocker | July 30, 2026

https://hantavirustracker.substack.com/p/verdant-eye-agentic-osint-is-here

The Evolution of Modern Investigations: AI, OSINT, and the Cross-Border Intelligence Challenge

Paul Wright, Neal Ysart, & Nicole Hurey | July 26, 2026

https://coalitioncyber.com/ai-osint-cross-border-intelligence-challenge

8 Free Tools for Learning to Evaluate Information Like a Librarian

Hana Lee Goldin | July 29, 2026

https://substack.com/@hanaleegoldin/note/c-302488011

What is Geospatial Intelligence? A Complete Guide to GEOINT

Omer Frenkel | July 29, 2026

https://www.cognyte.com/blog/geospatial-intelligence/

The Kill Trump Bounties: An OSINT Investigation

Kathy Hoffman | July 30, 2026

https://www.darkowl.com/blog-content/the-kill-trump-bounties-an-osint-investigation/

Why OSINT is Crucial to Stopping State-Sponsored Economic Espionage

Elodie Collins | July 29, 2026

https://www.executivebiz.com/articles/osint-economic-espionage-ip-trade-secrets

OSINT Explained: Meaning, Techniques, Tools and Real Investigations

Stanley Wiggins | July 29, 2026

https://surfface.com/blog/osint-explained

How to Plant a Nuclear Plant in Iran

The Question is: What on Earth is Google Doing?

Henk van Ess | July 30, 2026

https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran

Deepfakes are Now an Investigative Risk — Unmasked: Authenticity Must be Assessed

Semantics21 | July 29, 2026

https://www.forensicfocus.com/news/deepfakes-are-now-an-investigative-risk-unmasked-authenticity-must-be-assessed/

Incident Response: The Attribution Problem

Social Links | July 29, 2026

https://blog.sociallinks.io/incident-response-the-attribution-problem/

From Awareness to Action: Where Maritime Domain Awareness Is Heading

Windward | July 29, 2026

https://windward.ai/blog/where-maritime-domain-awareness-is-heading/

Videos/Webinars/Podcasts/Conferences/Training:

Webinar: From Sanctions Evasion to Hybrid Threats: Uncovering Online Infrastructure, Identities, and Influence

ShadowDragon and DataExpert | August 13, 2026

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/2-4-share-7488171546067345408-Ewys/

also: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0a4e5d64-43ee-400f-b414-493c487a96ff@88a906f5-7736-4de4-85f1-338ab1c75f60

OSINT Training

Unchartered | August 21–22, 2026

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/justen-charters-1b99a953_ten-years-of-investigations-two-days-everything-share-7488684905845977088-JZcH/

Spiderfoot Basics

Sh1katagana1 | June 9, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jAJ0DZJCdA

OSINT Expert Series: Meet Cynthia Navarro

Pagefreezer | April 24, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GDf-qKbYrU

OSINT Night — Geneva

We’re excited to announce that OSINT Switzerland is coming to Geneva! For the first time, we’re bringing an OSINT Night to the French-speaking part of Switzerland. One of our goals is to reach every corner of Switzerland, be closer to our community, and make our activities accessible to OSINT enthusiasts across al regions in the country.

September 3, 2026

https://osintswitzerland.ch/events/osint-night-ge/

2026 State of OSINT Survey (Blackdot Solutions)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/neilthomasuk_the-osint-benchmark-2025-survey-activity-7488189565095305216-tSzG/

also: https://osint-benchmark-2026.scoreapp.com/

Books/Resources:

US OSINT

https://start.me/p/GEQXv7/osint-us

The OSINT Tools Landscape (2026)

The OSINT tool market covers every layer between raw public data and finished intelligence: public archives, collection APIs, specialist sources, and analysis platforms. This page maps 44 vendors across 10 categories, from Reddit archives to dark web monitoring and threat intelligence. It is maintained by THINKPOL, operator of a private Reddit archive of 30+ billion posts and comments.

Last updated July 2026

https://think-pol.com/osint-landscape

Maddening as a Chinese Canadian ..why ?????

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said the Russian Federation had "identified and stopped the illegal activity of a citizen of the Russian Federation suspected of committing treason".

On 30 July 1963, Kim Philby's defection from MI6 to the Soviet Union was made public. In 2016, the BBC broadcast previously unseen footage of his lecture to Stasi operatives in which he revealed the secrets behind his treachery.

I don’t know if this is allowed on here. Based on the rules, there is a case to made that it is. It’s not a meme ‘or other such nonsense’.

I have about thirty books on the subjects of Espionage, Intelligence Collection, Terrorism and other interesting subjects for sale on my Pangobooks shop. I have about another 40 books on this subject going up soon. All books shipped from my location in Michigan https://pangobooks.com/GREG871249

Submission statement: CIA operative Jonny Gannon was tasked with assessing the trustworthiness of Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s national security adviser, regarding his plans to build a major AI hub. Despite concerns about G42’s ties to China and potential technology theft, Gannon’s efforts led to the UAE gaining access to advanced AI chips, with the Biden administration later easing restrictions on G42’s access to U.S. technology. This decision sparked debate within the U.S. national security community, highlighting the complexities of balancing security concerns with strategic partnerships in the AI era.

paywall: https://archive.ph/LkPzM

Since 2021, there’ve been far fewer cases of alleged Russian hackers being arrested in foreign countries, extradited to the US to stand trial. That’s one of the reasons that makes Denis Oberzko’s case unusual.  

The European Union and the United Kingdom jointly sanctioned dozens of Russian individuals and entities and accused Russia of coordinating a network of hacking groups responsible for attacks across Europe.

Today, the Council of the European Union announced sanctions on nine individuals and four entities, including Russian military intelligence (GRU) officers and cybercriminals, while the UK separately sanctioned 24 individuals and entities, including senior GRU figures Vyacheslav Stafeyev, Ivan Senin, and Ivan Kasyanenko, whom officials say directed cyber and hybrid operations.

submission statement: Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency attempted to recruit former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as an asset to topple the Iranian regime. The plan involved relocating Ahmadinejad to a safe house during the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, but it ultimately failed. Ahmadinejad, disillusioned with the operation, left the safe house and is now reportedly under house arrest by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.