Irina Tech Tips Newsletter #7
Hello, my dear readers!
Thank you so much for staying with me!
Just a reminder that in this newsletter, I will be collecting weekly posts from two Twitter accounts - https://twitter.com/cyb_detective and https://twitter.com/irina_tech_tips.
In this issue:
AI image editing
Other AI tools
OSINT tools
OSINT learning materials
AI image editing
Face Real ESRGAN
A tool to scale fuzzy faces in group photos by a factor of eight. Despite some distortions (which can be easily corrected in any online image editor), this is one of the best scaling tools for working with faces.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/doevent/Face-Real-ESRGAN
Diffuse the rest
Free online AI tool for converting user-drawn sketches into beautiful pictures. Unlike its analogues, it generates images with minimal differences from the original.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface-projects/diffuse-the-rest
OSINT tools
Plate Recognizer
Online tool to recognise number plates on blurred pictures. Sometimes it may not work accurately, but it is valuable for identifying the country when the flag is not visible.
Nuclei Templates AI Generator
Create Nuclei templates by textual description (e.g., vulnerability scanners by PoC).
P.S. If you don't know what you need Nuclei for, read this article:
https://medium.com/@cyb_detective/using-nuclei-for-osint-5-minute-basic-guide-f8764424902b
Learning materials
15 reverse face image search tips
- search engines
- AI image editing tools to enhance the quality of search results
- how to reverse face image search without photos
- quick face search on video
- protect yourself
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1693362048988598511.html
Blurred images in video problem
On Twitter, under the thread about face search, readers discussed this problem: "There is no image of a person's face. There is only a video with 30-40 fuzzy frames of this person. What to do?".
There are three methods you can try:
Focus Stacking https://focusstackingonline.com/ (combine several video frames)
Image Mixer https://huggingface.co/spaces/lambdalabs/image-mixer-demo (experiment with adjusting the importance of each picture)
Image Interpolation https://huggingface.co/spaces/NagaSaiAbhinay/UnCLIP_Image_Interpolation_Demo (combine an image of the original object with a very similar but high quality image of another object )
Just in case I remind you that when analysing video frames you can not make separate screenshots, but download all of them simultaneously in JPG with the help of different online services:
https://www.onlineconverter.com/extract-image-from-video
How to find the administrator of an onion site?
A detailed article on how Dakrnet works and what are the possible ways to deanonymize owners of onion sites :
https://medium.com/@moon_osint/how-to-find-the-administrator-of-an-onion-site-89d176b0061a
Author twitter.com/moon_osint
Introduction To Osint Research Using Maltego
A short guide from Somya Gupta, who will tell you how to start using Maltego and teach you basic investigative techniques.
https://devilsparadise.medium.com/an-introduction-to-osint-research-using-maltego-b6c3a1b04bf7
As of today, that's it. Thank you very much for your attention! See you next Friday! (I hope)