Hunting cyber criminals : a hacker's guide to online intelligence gathering tools and techniques / Vinny Troia

Includes index.

Network Exploration. Getting Started -- Investigations and Threat Actors -- Network Exploration -- Manual Network Exploration -- Looking for Network Activity (Advanced NMAP Techniques) -- Automated Tools for Network Discovery -- Web Exploration. Web Exploration -- Website Information Gathering -- Directory Hunting -- Search Engine Dorks -- WHOIS -- Certificate Transparency and Internet Archives -- Iris by DomainTools -- Digging for Gold. Digging for Gold -- Document Metadata -- Interesting Places to Look -- Publicly Accessible Data Storage -- People Hunting. People Hunting -- Researching People, Images, and Locations -- Searching Social Media -- Profile Tracking and Password Reset Clues -- Passwords, Dumps, and Data Viper -- Interacting with Threat Actors -- Cutting through the Disinformation of a 10-Million-Dollar Hack -- Epilogue.

The skills and tools for collecting, verifying and correlating information from different types of systems is an essential skill when tracking down hackers. This book explores Open Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT) inside out from multiple perspectives, including those of hackers and seasoned intelligence experts. OSINT refers to the techniques and tools required to harvest publicly available data concerning a person or an organization. With several years of experience of tracking hackers with OSINT, the author whips up a classical plot-line involving a hunt for a threat actor. While taking the audience through the thrilling investigative drama, the author immerses the audience with in-depth knowledge of state-of-the-art OSINT tools and techniques.