Learn OSINT (Open-source Intelligence) From Scratch (Udemy.com)

Zaid and Saad tamed up to bring you the best OSINT course out there and get you certified as an Open Source Intelligence Professional. Combining Zaid's experience in ethical hacking and teaching over 1 million students world wide, with Saad's amazing and focused OSINT skills.

This course will teach you how to use Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to gather information about anything. With no prior knowledge required, this course takes you from a beginner to an expert at performing advanced OSINT techniques, giving you the ability to gather information about individuals, companies, email addresses, phone numbers, social media accounts, physical locations, images and more.

Just like our other courses, this course is highly practical, but it won't neglect the theory. We'll start with the basics of open-source intelligence, then we'll dive and start using OSINT to investigate people, companies and individual pieces of information straight away. You'll learn everything by example, by gathering real information online — no boring dry lectures. By the end of the course, you will be an expert in open-source intelligence (OSINT).

To achieve this the course is divided into a number of sections,  each aims to teach you a specific OSINT technique. You'll first learn what is OSINT, why it is used, and who uses it. Then you'll learn how to use OSINT to find real information about targets, starting with just one piece of information (such as a name, email, username) and discovering all kinds of linked information such as hidden accounts, phone numbers, social media presence, leaked information, passwords and much more.

As we proceed, you will be introduced to different OSINT methodologies, tools, and techniques. Everything will be taught through examples and hands-on practicals—no useless or boring lectures!

All the techniques in this course are practical and work against real targets, you'll understand how to investigate each piece of information individually. Therefore by the end of the course you'll be able to start with any piece of information and carry out a full investigation to uncover rated data and information.

By the end of the course, you'll be able to modify these techniques to launch more sophisticated OSINT investigations and adapt them to suit different situations and scenarios.

Here are some of the topics that will be covered in the course:

• People OSINT

• Username OSINT

• Phone OSINT

• SOCMINT - Social Media OSINT

• Maps and Satellite OSINT.

• Image OSINT

• Website OSINT

• Search engines operators.

• Custom search operators.

• Searching with AI

• Setting up an OSINT virtual machine

• Creating a Sock Puppet account

• Searching for leaked / breached databases

• Downloading leaked / breached databases

• Leveraging leaked / breached databases to find sensitive information.

• Finding passwords in leaked / breached databases.

• Scraping & downloading posts from Instagram, Tiktok, Snapchat, etc.

• Finding hidden content, posts, comments, accounts, etc.

• Discovering linked usernames, accounts, phone numbers, emails, etc.

• Tracking phone numbers, images, online accounts, etc.

• Investigating locations with various maps and satellite services

• Discovering subdomains, hidden website owners, linked websites and more!

• Using people search engines

• Reverse image search

• Geolocation of photos

• AI image tracking

• Manual image tracking

• Facial recognition

• Voter records lookup

• Searching Wedding/Baby/Gift registries

• OSINT automation.

• Writing OSINT reports.

You'll use the following tools to achieve the above:

• Tracelabs OSINT VM

• True People search engine.

• Phoneinfoga

• Sherlock

• Spiderfoot

• Ghunt

• Httprobe

• Sublist3r

• Instaloader

• WPScan

• Google Dorks

• DorkGPT

• Google Hacking Database GHDB

• Exif Tool

• DeHashed

• LeakPeek

• Breach Directory

• Have I Been Pwned

• IntelX Tools

• VirtualBox

• True People Search

• OSINT Industries

• CyberChef

• OpenStreetMap (OSM)

• DNSDumpster

• Wayback Machine

• FOCA

• GeoSpy

• Osintracker

  
  

Other topics:

• Linux basics

• Using the Linux terminal

• Linux commands.

• Installing virtual machines

With this course you'll get 24/7 support, so if you have any questions you can post them in the Q&A section and we'll respond to you within 15 hours.

Check out the curriculum and the course teaser for more info!

Notes:

• This is the official course to prepare you for the C|OSINT|P (certified OSINT professional) certification.

• This course is created for educational purposes only. Everything done through it is legal and relies on information that is publicly available on the internet.