Recon Village·21 min
Manabu Niseki
Manabu Niseki presents Mihari, an open-source framework that queries multiple threat intelligence search engines to continuously track adversary C2 infrastructure.
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Recon Village DC29
Paris and Bally's Hotels, Las Vegas · 5-8 August 2021 · 15 talks
Recon Village explores open-source intelligence (OSINT), external attack surface management, passive DNS tracking, investigative OPSEC, and adversary infrastructure hunting.
1–15 of 15 talks
Recon Village·29 min
MasterChen
MasterChen reverse engineers commercial consumer threat and credit scoring algorithms, building an open OSINT pipeline to evaluate personal digital exposure.
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Recon Village·19 min
Utku Sen
Utku Sen reveals how brute forcing and analyzing short URL endpoints leaks confidential cloud documents, private tokens, and unindexed internal infrastructure.
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Recon Village·30 min
Anthony Kava
Law enforcement investigator Anthony Kava uncovers widespread typosquatting and doppelgänger domains mimicking government agencies to defraud citizens.
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Recon Village·45 min
Ryan Elkins
Ryan Elkins explains how to architect distributed, serverless cloud recon pipelines to continuously monitor enterprise attack surfaces at scale.
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Recon Village·29 min
Ladislav Baco
Ladislav Baco demonstrates how independent threat researchers can discover nation-state APT campaigns through proactive telemetry hunting and pivoting.
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Recon Village·42 min
Nick Roy
Nick Roy demonstrates investigating North Korean digital infrastructure, trade evasion, and state activity using public OSINT and commercial satellite telemetry.
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Recon Village·23 min
Kala Kinyon
Kala Kinyon provides practical OSINT defense and privacy threat modeling strategies to help vulnerable communities protect physical and digital identities.
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Recon Village·28 min
Mishaal Khan
Mishaal Khan shares red team methodologies for gathering target intelligence on executives and employees to craft high-impact social engineering pretexts.
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Recon Village·23 min
Ritu Gill
OSINT investigator Ritu Gill outlines essential operational security principles, sock puppet management, and digital footprint hygiene for researchers.
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Recon Village·16 min
Tushar Verma
Tushar Verma breaks down a structured reconnaissance methodology for bug bounty hunters, covering subdomain enumeration, content discovery, and asset tracking.
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Recon Village·41 min
Ben S.
Ben S. explores modern External Attack Surface Management (EASM), shifting from static inventory spreadsheets to dynamic, continuous external discovery.
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Recon Village·30 min
Rae
Rae shares investigative OSINT methodologies and open-source tools used to support law enforcement and NGOs in disrupting human trafficking networks.
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Recon Village·30 min
Andy Dennis
Andy Dennis demonstrates leveraging passive DNS databases to uncover competitor infrastructure, corporate acquisitions, and business intelligence.
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Recon Village·47 min
Mauro Eldritch
Mauro Eldritch presents Venator, an automated OSINT tool designed to identify, map, and dismantle troll networks and bot farms on Twitter.
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