Recon Village Courses

The Art of Pivoting in OSINT Investigations

Master the art of pivoting in OSINT investigations with techniques for expanding research, uncovering hidden connections, and automating workflows. Learn practical methods through real-world case studies while considering ethical implications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Maltego Community Workshop: OSINT and Custom Transforms - Recon Village

Master Maltego for OSINT investigations, from using built-in transforms to creating custom ones with maltego-trx. Learn to integrate external tools like Holehe and WhatsMyName to enhance your threat intelligence capabilities.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OWASP Amass: Expanding Data Horizons - Workshop on Advanced Reconnaissance Techniques

Dive into OWASP Amass's evolution beyond subdomain enumeration to comprehensive OSINT collection. Master attack surface mapping, Open Asset Model implementation, and advanced reconnaissance techniques through hands-on exercises.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

SWGRecon: Automating SWG Rules, Policies and Bypasses

Discover how to automate reconnaissance against Secure Web Gateways (SWGs) with SWGRecon, learning techniques to identify vendors, reconstruct policies, and bypass protections for penetration testing and security assessment.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Tapping the OSINT Potential of Telegram

Discover how to leverage Telegram's security gaps for OSINT investigations, focusing on the "similar channels" feature to reveal hidden networks, with practical tools for investigators, journalists, and researchers.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Recursion is a Harsh Mistress: How (Not) To Build a Recursive Internet Scanner

Explore the challenges of recursive internet scanning through BBOT development, featuring real-world failures, edge cases, and practical solutions to avoid recursion pitfalls in security reconnaissance.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Pushing the Limits of Mass DNS Scanning

Discover SanicDNS, an ultra-fast open-source DNS scanner that's 100x faster than traditional tools, enabling real-time internet-wide reconnaissance for security professionals hunting DNS misconfigurations and nameserver takeover opportunities.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

GeoINT Mastery: A Pixel is Worth a Thousand Words

Discover how to extract intelligence from images using Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) techniques. Learn to identify objects, decode symbols, analyze text, and uncover hidden location clues using common browser tools.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OSINT: Unmasking John Mark Dougan's Disinformation Empire

Discover how Clemson University's OSINT investigation exposed John Mark Dougan's network of 160+ disinformation websites, revealing techniques for tracking digital breadcrumbs and combating narrative manipulation at scale.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Bastardo Grande: Hunting the Largest Black Market Bike Fence in the World

Discover how BikeIndex.org tracked the world's largest black-market bike fence using OSINT techniques, leading to federal prosecution. Learn about cross-border trafficking networks, digital surveillance methods, and the bike hunters fighting back.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Bypassing WHOIS Rate Limiting and Tracking Fresh Enterprise Domains

Discover how to bypass WHOIS rate limiting with whoiswatcher—a tool for tracking fresh enterprise domains at scale, processing millions of queries daily using serverless deployments and IPv6 proxying for security monitoring.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Recon MindMap: Organize, Visualize and Prioritize Recon Data Efficiently

Discover how to organize, visualize, and prioritize reconnaissance data efficiently with Recon MindMap (RMM), an open-source tool that transforms overwhelming security data into structured, actionable intelligence for red teams and bug bounty hunters.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How I Found Your Password and Other Advanced Data Hoarding Techniques

Discover advanced techniques for data breach research and legal frameworks while exploring DorXNG, a next-gen OSINT tool for ethical security testing and red team operations.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Leakonomics 101: The Last Year in Data Leaks - Analysis and Trends

Explore the anatomy of data leaks through real-world cases from the past year, examining breach patterns, criminal marketplace dynamics, and emerging trends in cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Mastering OSINT: Advanced Techniques in the Realm of Big Data

Discover advanced OSINT techniques for big data analysis, including practical applications of Google BigQuery, CommonCrawl, and Rapid7 Open-Data for enhanced intelligence gathering and security research.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video