OSINT Education Spotlight: Internet Collection

12/08/2025

 

The process of gathering PAI from various online and internet-collected sources for OSINT purposes. Collectors may need to make use of specialized tradecraft and technology to obfuscate the interests, identity, and search techniques of the collector, referred to collectively as managed attribution (MA). Practitioners may collect PAI from sources within the surface, deep, or dark webs.

See the OSINT Collection Methodologies Document for more details here: https://lnkd.in/efURxev9