What topics does osintme.com cover?

osintme.com is a practitioner-focused OSINT blog written by Matt, covering four broad areas: investigator tooling (browsers, Linux desktop apps), research techniques (Reddit, favicons, dark web resources), threat intelligence (named threat actors, ransomware), and learning resources (books, newsletters, exam advice). It is useful if you want hands-on, tested methods rather than vendor marketing — the Reddit and dark web posts are explicitly described as hands-on tested, and the reading list is framed as personal recommendations. It is not a tool itself, a data provider, or a formal training course.

Investigator tooling

Two posts in the visible index deal with the machine an investigator works from:

• Web browsers for OSINT investigators — described as a brief review of dedicated browsers and third-party solutions for OSINT work.
• Linux desktop apps for your OSINT machine — recommended Linux Mint native desktop apps for OSINT and general productivity.

The pairing is worth noting: the browser post is about what you browse with, the Linux post about what you run on. If you are building or rebuilding a dedicated workstation, these two are the starting points.

Research techniques

• OSINT tools and techniques for research on Reddit — Google dorks and third-party tools for investigating Reddit, described as hands-on tested.
• The importance of favicons in website OSINT research — how favicon data supports website attribution and infrastructure research.
• Darkweb OSINT resources for investigators – 2025 — Tor site links and resources, presented as a dated annual edition.

The dated editions matter: a "2025" label tells you the author intends to refresh the list, so check whether a newer edition exists before relying on the links.

Threat intelligence

• Pro-Iranian threat actor Handala – new websites — an overview of psy-op domains associated with Handala, a pro-Iranian threat actor group.
• OSINT resources for researching ransomware — multiple sources and datasets for investigating ransomware activity.

These are domain-specific rather than general tradecraft: you get a named actor or a crime category plus the sources used to research it.

Learning resources

• OSINT & online crime books for investigators – the Osint Me 2026 reading list — a personal list of reading recommendations.
• List of recommended OSINT newsletters — the author's picks for quality OSINT updates.
• Tips & recommendations for passing the CISSP exam — how the author planned for, studied for, and passed the ISC2 CISSP exam.

The CISSP post sits outside OSINT proper but signals the site's wider security-and-career scope.

What the site is not

The visible material is editorial: reviews, technique write-ups, link lists, and reading recommendations. There is no evidence in the available page data of a paid tier, a subscription, or a product behind a login — but absence of pricing signals is not proof that everything is free or accessible without registration, so verify on the site itself if that matters to you.

How to decide whether to follow it

The index shows 14 pages of posts, so the five headings above are a sample of the front page rather than the full archive — browse the pagination if none of these match your focus.