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• 🔥 Passionate about: CYBER | OSINT | SOCMINT | IMINT | GEOINT | DARK WEB | CRYPTO | PYTHON | OPSEC 🔒
• 👨‍🏫 OSINT Trainer @Tactical OSINT Academy
• 👨‍🏫 OSINT Trainer @École Supérieure de la Sûreté des Entreprises For the DSAC course (Data Security Analyst) and ROC (Renseignement d'Origine Cyber)
• 👑 Founding Member of OSINT.UK
• 🏴 The OSINTion Black Badge
• 🥇 3x Trace Labs Gold Badge award
• 🏆 2024 NMP Hackathon Winner
• 🥈 3x Trace Labs Silver Badge Award
• 🥉 1x Trace Labs Bronze Badge Award
• ⚖️ Trace Labs Judge (OSINTomatico Conference 2023, Madrid, Spain)
• 👾 Hacktoria Community Member | Ⓗ Hacktoria CTF Team Member


• 🧠 Regular contributor to the OSINT community & enjoys bringing to light new OSINT techniques.
• 👨‍💻 Creator of HandleHawk 🦅 Username Reconnaissance tool
• 👨‍💻 Creator of the Masto Maltego Transform
• 🤖 Creator of the OpenAI GPT called Trace Labs Buddy ֎
• 🤖 Creator of the Discord Bot called GitOSINT 🦾
• 👨‍💻 Creator of Masto 🐘
• 👨‍💻 Creator of the Masto OSINT Tool Python package (on PyPI) 🐘
• 👨‍💻 Creator of WebOSINT 🌐
• 👨‍💻 Creator of WhatsMyName Python 👤
• 👨‍💻 Creator of Just Trak'EM 📍
• 🤓 Creator of People Count Tool 🧑‍🤝‍🧑
• 👨‍💻 Creator of FB2MKTP - Facebook to Marketplace 🇫🇧 ==> 🇲 🇰 🇹 🇵


• 🎤 Invited as a speaker at FIC 2023 (International CyberSecurity Forum | OSINT Day)
• 🎤 Invited as a speaker at OSINT Punk 23 #OSINTPunk23
• 🎤 Invited as a speaker at OSINTerdam 07-2024 (Amsterdam, NL) #OSINTerdam
• 👮‍♂️ Invited as an OSINT analyst at Bordeaux Montaigne University, for the first #OSINT Law Enforcement Bootcamp 2024, organized by CyberNeTic Project, to work and help solve Cold Cases for the French National Police and Gendarmerie .
  
  
• ✒️ Volunteer report writer for the Trace Labs organization after Trace Labs CTF events.
• 🗃️ Archiver at The Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
• ✍️ Project WhatsMyName 2nd top contributor behind @WebBreacher WMN is one of the top OSINT Tools for username enumeration: https://whatsmyname.app (GitHub: https://github.com/WebBreacher/WhatsMyName)
• ✍️ Writer/Contributor to the OSINT Newsletter by Jake Creps. Shared a 404 Bypass Technique that was found on Gravatar in the October 2023 OSINT Newsletter
  
  
• 🥇1st place - Gold Badge Award in the Trace Labs OSINT Search Party CTF 2025.04
• 🥇1st place - CTF HUNT, École de Guerre Économique (Economic War School)
• 🥇1st place - 2024 Australia NMP (National Missing Persons) Hackathon (215 Teams Competed)
• 🥇1st place - Gold Badge Award in the Trace Labs OSINT Search Party CTF 2024.01
• 🥇1st place - Gold Badge Award in the Trace Labs OSINT Search Party CTF 2023.02
• 🥇1st place in the OSINT GAMES CTF TENET | 2022: created by @WebBreacher
• 🥇1st Team to finish the HEXA OSINT CTF 2024 Challenges phase (V3) (4th overall after the reports "analysis" phase). Team "Les Blaireaux des Légendes"
• 🥇1st place in the Hacktoria OSINT CTF | Downtown Murderer 2022
• 🥇1st place in the CTF OSINT Bleuet de France 2022 (AEGE War School and ONACVG/Bleuet de France , French Ministry of Defense)
• 🥈2nd place in the 2024 Stranger Case OSINT CTF organised by Esna Bretagne. CTF partnership with Orange Cyberdefense, Root Me, and Yubico.
• 🥈2nd place - Silver Badge Award in the Trace Labs OSINT Search Party CTF 2024.04
• 🥈2nd place - Silver Badge Award in the Trace Labs OSINT Search Party CTF 2022.11 | OSE (Operation Safe Escape)
• 🥈2nd place - Silver Badge Award in the Trace Labs OSINT Search Party CTF 2022.03
• 🥈2nd place Hacktoria CTF Operation Manhunt 2023
• 🥈2nd Place Hacktoria CTF OP Galaxios 2022
• 🥉3rd Place in the OSINT Combine CTF | 2025
• 🥉3rd Place Oscar Zulu OSINT CTF | Le Bruit des Bottes| 2025
• 🥉3rd Place MilOsint CTF | 2021
• 🥉3rd Place in the Stranger Case OSINT CTF organised by Esna Bretagne and Esn'Hack ./CTF partnership with DGA - Direction Générale de l'Armement (French Government Defense procurement and technology agency), Airbus Cybersecurity, Diateam & Apixit | 2022


• Participated in the 2024 Australian National Missing Persons (NMP) Hackathon
• Qualified for the HEXA OSINT CTF final at LeHack 2024 (https://lehack.org), Team Blaireaux des Légendes (1st place in the Challenges | 4th after the reports analysis)
• One of 9 out of +700 to fully complete the SampleCTF
• 6th place HEXA OSINT CTF 2021 Team OSINT-B33R [Sopra Steria and La Fabrique Défense, French Ministry of Defense]
• 6th place out of 170 Teams in the 2024 Gendarmerie Nationale CTE (Capture The Evidence)
• 8th place HEXA OSINT CTF V2 2023 Team CogitOSINT Ergo Sum [Sopra Steria]- 116 Teams participated.
• Participated in the 2022 DefCon https://defcon.org Trace Labs OSINT CTF, Las Vegas, USA (7th Place with The Osint Unit)
• Participated Solo in the RACTF - Digital Overdose 2022 Conference CTF (Teams of 4 players), 27th place out of over 450 teams


• Mentionned in The Cambridge Handbook of Facial Recognition in the Modern State (Published by Cambridge University Press)
• Mentionned by RUSI:Royal United Services Institute (UK's leading defence and security think tank), on the following 62-page paper --> The Future of Open Source Intelligence for UK National Security [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Featured on a Facial Recognition Guide by Henk Van Hess on GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network) --> Facial Recognition made easy [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Mentionned by the Belarussian Association of Journalists [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• First to find and reveal weaknesses on Sports Tracker App which has Public Tracking on by default for iOS devices --> Thread posted on X
• Featured in this French press article about the top French OSINTers --> OSINT, Can French excellence still be reinforced [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Featured in the January 2024 issue of Mag'OSINT [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Featured in Intelekto's top 15 OSINT accounts to follow on Twitter [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Featured in CqCore's TOP Osint Practitioners list
• Featured on 0xtechrock's OSINTers list to follow [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Featured in the OSINT Newsletter Issue 50 (April 2024)
• Featured in the Jake Creps 28th of August 2023 OSINT Newsletter --> Finding Missing Persons - Trace Labs CTF Review (DEFCON 31) [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Featured in the Jake Creps July 2023 OSINT Newsletter regarding the Google Calendar OSINT Technique that I found. [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Featured in the Intelfe July 2023 Newsletter regarding the Google Calendar OSINT Technique that I brought to light.
• Featured in the July 2023 OSINT Jobs Newsletter regarding the new Google Calendar OSINT Technique that I found. [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Featured in the Jake Creps March 2023 OSINT Newsletter in relation to a new Google Chat Technique I brought to light. [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Featured in Week in OSINT 2022-35 by @Sector035. [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Featured again in sector035's newsletter in relation to Masto OSINT tool in Week in OSINT 2022-45 [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Mentioned in the resources of @WebBreacher at the 2022 DEFCON30 | Recon Village: The Future of Collecting Data from the Past: OSINT Now and Beyond (Resource: OSINT Inception). [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• OSINT-FR Hall of Fame: Talented OSINTers [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Featured in the OSINT Jobs September 2022 newsletter - This Week's OSINT Tips and Tricks. [Archived on WayBack Machine]
• Work done on partial Facial Recognition was mentionned at the INCYBER Forum 2024 by Sylvain Hajri (Navlys), founder of Epieos.
• Facial Recognition work was presented at the RootedCON 2022 in Madrid
• Beta-Tester for OSINTracker and OSINT Rooms on TryHackMe
• Osintracker Sponsor --> https://www.osintracker.com/partnerships
• 2024 InCyber Forum Partner #Fic2024 for the OSINT Day
• Contributed to Osint Industries the Facebook Marketplace module
• Featured in an OSINT Industries Case Study: "Using Facebook to Crack Fraud and Find Missing Persons with OSINT Tactical."
• Feb 2025: Helped OSINT Industries with various modules
• Feb 2025: Posted about a vulnerability on Pappers exposing hundreds of passport numbers. It was fixed by Pappers in less than 24 hours.
• March 2025: Complimented by Maltego for creating Masto Maltego Transform.
• Mentioned in an article by OSINT Industries on 14/03/2025 --> OSINT on Facebook: Find Emails, Phone Numbers, and More.
• Featured in the August 2025 OSINT Newsletter.
• Beta-Tester for the CTF "Mission Vérité", created by Steven DEFFOUS and the Hack'olyte association for BPI France
• Featured in the October 2025 OSINT Jobs Newsletter for sharing a guide on how to extract date and time from a Google Review.
• Featured in the OSINT Newsletter on X for sharing a Google Calendar technique and the Gmail Dots technique.

• Identified and located an individual wanted by the FBI by using only Open Source Intelligence --> See the Post on X.

• Found data on a criminal wanted by the Australian NSW Police --> Report was sent in 2023

• Found new intelligence on a high priority wanted criminal . The intel was submitted to Europol - FAST (Fugitive Active Search Team)

• Located an individual wanted by the UK NCA (National Crime agency) and provided the NCA with his current location and the exact GPS coordinates of where to find him.

• Found information on a wanted criminal in UK and submitted the data to the London Metropolitan Police.

• Helped French law enforcement identify & arrest a group of criminals using only OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) Click to see the Thank you note from the Gendarmerie Nationale Commander.

• Carried out extensive research that lead to finding intelligence on a Ukrainian hacker wanted by the US Government with a 1 million price tag on his head (Full findings report is 33 pages) Twitter post.

    ᴍʏ ᴏꜱɪɴᴛ ᴘʀᴏᴊᴇᴄᴛꜱ | ᴛᴜᴛᴏʀɪᴀʟꜱ    

• HandleHawk Username Recon 🦅
• Masto Maltego Transform 🐘
• Trace Labs Buddy GPT ֎ - Helping Teams before and during Trace Labs CTF events
• OSINT INCEPTION 🚀 - A start.me page of the best OSINT start.me projects
• Project OSINT inception is used by SMART - Start Me Aggregated Resource Tool
• OSINT INCEPTION GITHUB 🏢 - Project Links
• GOOGLE CSE 🇬 - Google Custom Search Engine of the top start.me resources
• FACIAL RECOGNITION 👤 - Tracking Military personnel with facial recognition
• OSINT BOOKMARKLETS 🏷️ - Semi-Automated Faster Searches
• Protintelligence 🐍 - Python Tool
• W3b0s1nt (WebOSINT) 🐍 - Python Tool
• WhatsMyName-Python 🐍 - Unofficial WMN Python Script I made for myself
• Masto OSINT Tool 🐍 - Python tool to gather information on Mastodon users and instances
• Just Trak'EM 🐍 - Python tool to search for Sports Tracker Profiles
• People Count Tool 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 - Python tool running on a development server (Flask), uses YOLOv5 Artificial Intelligence to count people from an image.
• FB2MKTP 🐍 - Python tool to get Facebook user ID and to go from FB profile to Marketplace account.
• GitOSINT Bot 🤖 - Discord OSINT Bot
• Tutorial 📚 - cURL for OSINT
• Tutorial 📚 - Obsidian | Made 2 templates
• Tutorial 📚 - Using a Virtual Environment for OSINT Python tools
• First to find the Google Chat Technique 🕵️‍♂️ - First to find and mention the Google Chat Technique to check if a Gmail address or Google Group exists, with the ability to also get the photo of the user, and GAIA ID
• Facial Recognition Trick and Tip 👤 - Found that 2 different Facial Recognition tools don't work with black and white photos of faces, a simple trick solves this issue
• First to find the Protonmail Custom Domain trick ⚛️ - Found that the API shows the main email address for any custom domain that uses a catch-all, no matter what the input in front of {%@domain.com} is
• Created a Map (in French) of firearms that have been used (confirmed shots fired), stolen, or seen on social media during the France June/July 2023 Riots. The map was/is used by Law Enforcement, French and foreign OSINT community members, and viewed thousands of times --> Click here to see the Map
• First to find the Google Calendar OSINT Technique 📆 - Found a way of checking if any email is tied to a Google Account by using Google Calendar
• Found a new technique for Snapchat Map in November 2023 to get the date and time of a video

GitHub Code | Projects contributions:

• https://whatsmyname.app WhatsMyName OSINT Tool created by @WebBreacher and by @OSINTCombine
• Obsidian OSINT Templates in collaboration with @WebBreacher
• OSINT Stuff Tool Collection created by @cipher387
• Twayback Python OSINT Tool by @Mennaruuk
• Maigret OSINT Tool by @Soxoj
• Mailcat email OSINT Tool by @sharsil

*The articles below have been archived, in case one of them is not accessible, grab the link and put it through The Internet Archive (WayBack Machine)

• WIRED: Online Sleuths Are Using Face Recognition to ID Russian Soldiers 🇺🇸

• Washington Examiner Article 🇺🇸

• Renseignement de source ouverte (OSINT) : l'excellence française peut-elle encore être renforcée ? 🇫🇷

• La Reconnaissance Faciale pour combattre la guerre en Ukraine/ French Article writen by @ManHack 🇫🇷

• La reconnaissance faciale en temps de guerre selon Clearview 🇫🇷

• Une société française identifie les soldats russes en Ukraine par reconnaissance faciale 🇫🇷

• Mentionned in MAG'OSINT (Osint Magazine of the French Economic War School) 🇫🇷 MAGOSINT.pdf

• Spanish Article 🇪🇸

• Spanish Article 🇪🇸

• Spanish Article 🇪🇸

• Spanish Article 🇪🇸

• Chinese article 🇨🇳

• Chinese article 🇨🇳

• Featured in Tech News: Taiwan 🇹🇼

• Comments about my project: OSINT INCEPTION by start.me 🇳🇱

• Helped French Factchecking unit "Les Vérificateurs" from Groupe TF1/LCI regarding the Putin Body Double. (See video below)

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TryHackMe Stats | Badges :

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OhSINT	Sakura	7-day Streak	AFK	Hash Cracker	3-day Streak	Webbed	World Wide Web	cat linux.txt

OSINT DOJO Sakura Badge Verification

OSINT DOJO AFK Badge Verification

Kase Scenarios Badge Verification

  Analysts who earn this badge have successfully applied a wide variety of OSINT tools, resources and methods to solve the challenges of the scenario.
  The Vanishing of Rosie Parker is considered a intermediate level scenario with a few harder challenges that will test even the most seasoned OSINT analyst

OSINT Educational Series Badge Verification

 OSINT Educational Series made by FINDX and Trace Labs
 Completed all 3 Rooms on TryHackMe

CTF Mission Verite Badge Verification

 Beta Tester for the CTF Mission Verite
 Testing and validation of all CTF challenges prior to launch
 Verification of flags, story consistency, spelling and linguistic consistency, and technical functionality of the challenges and platform.

Trace Labs Gold Badge Verification on Badgr

 🥇1st Place Trace Labs [Gold Badge]
  Global OSINT Search Party CTF 2025-04 [Team The Legendary Badgers]
  Competed under the username: Tactical Badger

Trace Labs Gold Badge Verification on Badgr

 🥇1st Place Trace Labs [Gold Badge (ex black badge)] 
  Global OSINT Search Party CTF 2024-01 [Team MissingNo]
  Competed under the username: Langley2.0

Trace Labs Gold Badge Verification on Badgr

 🥇1st Place Trace Labs [Gold Badge (ex black badge)] 
  Global OSINT Search Party CTF 2023-02 [Team Wizards of OZINT 🧙‍♂️]
  Competed under the username: Pentagon

✍️ TraceLabs Report Writer 

Verify Report Writer Badge Authenticity

⚖️ TraceLabs CTF Judge 

Verify Judge Badge Authenticity

🥇1st Place OSINT GAMES CTF TENET (https://osintgames.ctfd.io)

Verify CTF result: certificate.pdf

🥇1st Place Hacktoria OSINT CTF (Downtown Murderer)

Bleuet de France OSINT CTF Gold Badge 2022 Verification on Badgr

🥇1st Place OSINT CTF Bleuet de France 🇫🇷 CTF organized by AEGE War School 
  In partnership with French Gov Agency ONACVG [National Office of Veterans and War Victims] & Bleuet de France

 🏴The OSINTion Black Badge/ issued by Joe Gray 
  [Verifications can be made with The OSINTion https://www.theosintion.com]

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📊 Hackathon_FInal Scoreboard 2024.xlsx

 🏆1st Place 2024 NMP Hackathon (Australia)
  Team Phish & Chips
  Competed under the username: OSINT_Analyst

 🥇1st Place 2025 EGE HUNT -École de Guerre Économique (Economic War School, Paris)
  Team Les Blaireaux des Légendes

Trace Labs Silver Badge Verification on Badgr

 🥈2nd Place Trace Labs [Silver Badge] 
  Global OSINT Search Party CTF 2022-03 [Team CageyBees 🐝🐝]

Trace Labs Silver Badge Verification on Badgr

 🥈2nd Place Trace Labs [Silver Badge] 
  Global OSINT Search Party CTF 2022-11 | OSE: Operation Safe Escape [Team Hacktoria ⓗ]
  Hacktoria OSINT CTF Team Cpt. (https://hacktoria.com)

Trace Labs Silver Badge Verification on Badgr

 🥈2nd Place Trace Labs [Silver Badge] 
  Global OSINT Search Party CTF 2024-04
  Team Ghost Recon Unit

 🥇1st Place Hacktoria OSINT CTF (Downtown Murderer)
 🥈2nd Place Hacktoria CTF Operation Manhunt
 🥈2nd Place Hacktoria CTF Operation Galaxios
  CTF Events completion Badges [Operations: Downtown Murderer/ Warthog / Galaxios / Runner / Brutus/ The Michigan Mystery]

  Tiberian Order and HACKTORIA Contract Cards for solved CTF events

  Solved the CTF "A Christmas Conspiracy" by Infosec United and Hacktoria

 🥈2nd Place in the Stranger Case Qualifications (2024) OSINT CTF V3 on the Team: Blaireaux des Légendes
  CTF organised by Esna Bretagne (https://esna.bzh), sponsored by Root Me (https://www.root-me.org), Orange Cyberdéfense (https://www.orangecyberdefense.com/fr/), and Yubico.

Trace Labs Bronze Badge Verification on Badgr

 🥉Bronze Badge awarded to members of the 3rd placed team at the Trace Labs Global OSINT Search Party CTF 2024.08

 🥉3rd Place in the Stranger Case OSINT CTF V3 Finals in Paris (2024) on the Team: Blaireaux des Légendes
  CTF organised by Esna Bretagne (https://esna.bzh), sponsored by Root Me (https://www.root-me.org), Orange Cyberdéfense (https://www.orangecyberdefense.com/fr/), and Yubico.

 🥉3rd Place in the Stranger Case OSINT CTF V1 on the Team 呪術廻戦 (JuJutsu Kaisen).
  CTF organised by Esna Bretagne & Esn'Hack, with parterships with the DGA- Direction Générale de l'Armement (French Gov Defence procurement and technology agency), Airbus     
  Cybersecurity, Apixit, Diateam.

  🥉3rd Place in the MilOsintCTF [Military Themed OSINT CTF]

Le Bruit des Bottes Bronze Badge Verification on Badgr

 🥉3rd Place in the Oscar Zulu 2025 OSINT CTF Le Bruit des Bottes

 🥉3rd Place in the OSINT Combine 2025 CTF (Played Solo under the username osintcrazy)

  🥇1st to complete the 2024 HEXA OSINT CTF challenges with the Team: Les Blaireaux des Légendes
  4th position after the report analysis challenge

  8th Place in the HACKOSINT CTF by Hack'olyte - Team Blaireaux des Légendes (2 players)
  Badge Challenger

SAMPLECTF Completion October 2022 Verification on Badgr

  1 of 9 competitors out of +700 people to fully complete the SAMPLECTF made by @WebNoser

 6th Place in the Gendarmerie Nationale CTE (Capture The Evidence) with Team Blaireaux des Légendes. 170 Teams competed.

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