Maria Cattini

Investigative illustration of a smartphone with monitoring functions and a hidden app, alongside a computer showing parental-control and employee-monitoring software, with location tracking and digital surveillance elements representing an OSINT investigation into the stalkerware ecosystem.

OSINT

The Stalkerware Market Hides in Plain Sight. OSINT Can Map It — but Detection Is Only Half the Problem

September 24, 2026

Analyst reviewing an automated OSINT workflow connecting public-source collection, correlation and structured profiles.

OSINT

When Public Data Becomes a Targeting Pipeline: A Guide to Automated OSINT

September 17, 2026

Industrial waste site illustrating an OSINT investigation into cross-border waste shipments between Italy and Croatia.

Field Notes

Following the Waste Back to Italy: An OSINT Case Study from Croatia

September 10, 2026

AI-Designed Viral Genomes: What the First Functional Phage Case Changes

AI

AI-Designed Viral Genomes: What the First Functional Phage Case Changes

September 3, 2026

Proton Mail Account Age Lookup: What a Public PGP Endpoint Can Reveal

Proton Mail Account Age Lookup: What a Public PGP Endpoint Can Reveal

August 27, 2026

Can AI Text Watermark Detection Prove a Document Was Machine-Written?

AI

Can AI Text Watermark Detection Prove a Document Was Machine-Written?

August 20, 2026

DeepSeek Just Reversed Its Price War. Here's What to Check Before Your Bill Changes

AI

DeepSeek Just Reversed Its Price War. Here’s What to Check Before Your Bill Changes

August 13, 2026

When a Security Test Stops Being a Test: How Three Claude Models Reached Real Companies

AI

When a Security Test Stops Being a Test: How Three Claude Models Reached Real Companies

August 6, 2026

When the Test Became the Incident: What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Case Really Shows

AI

When the Test Became the Incident: What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Case Really Shows

July 31, 2026

Editorial OSINT illustration showing an analyst reviewing a large social media evidence dashboard assisted by AI agents, with source cards, labels, review queues and verification notes.

OSINT

AI Can Triage Evidence. It Still Cannot Verify the Story Alone

July 24, 2026

Multimodal AI News Analysis

OSINT

Multimodal AI News Analysis: What the Strait of Hormuz Crisis Reveals

July 17, 2026

Guide to using reverse image

TOOLKIT

Quick Guide: Reverse Image Search → Finding Historical Matches

July 14, 2026

Analyst desk with public company records, domain lookup notes and an evidence table for OSINT due diligence

OSINT

How to Check a Company With Public Records Before You Trust It

July 13, 2026

OSINT evidence preservation workflow showing a source URL, contextual screenshot, archive link, metadata note, and evidence chain on an analyst desk.

OSINT

Source Disappearing: How to Preserve OSINT Evidence Before It Changes

July 10, 2026

Editorial vector illustration of a Git repository map with commits, configuration files and agent traces connected by evidence lines.

AI

How to Detect AI Coding Agents in Open Source Repositories

July 6, 2026

Editorial vector illustration of an AI agent inside a network of permission gates, audit logs and monitored tool calls

AI

When AI Agents Become Insider Threats

July 3, 2026

Editorial OSINT illustration showing image verification workflow with reverse search, provenance metadata, geolocation clues and source chain.

OSINT

Visual Verification in OSINT: Why Reverse Image Search Is No Longer Enough

June 29, 2026

Abstract OSINT workspace showing an AI support agent connected to account recovery, permissions and audit logs as an access boundary

AI

AI Support Agents as Account Access Surfaces

June 26, 2026

Editorial illustration of an OSINT evidence log connecting claim components, sources, confidence levels and open questions

OSINT

Evidence Log Template for Claim Verification

June 22, 2026

Investigator reviewing an AI-assisted OSINT checklist with evidence notes, source records and verification steps on a laptop screen

AI

The AI-Assisted OSINT Checklist: What to Ask, What to Verify, What to Ignore

June 19, 2026