Field notes on OSINT methodology, digital exposure and executive threat intelligence. Written by analysts, for decision-makers.
OFAC sanctioned two Dubai companies and four Hong Kong/Singapore shells on 7 August 2026 for moving Iranian oil money. Full open-source analysis: entity list, timeline, and sourcing.
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Joint ventures fail for two reasons: strategic misalignment and partner risk. The first is hard to predict. The second is not.
The question is not whether your exposure exists. It does. The question is whether you have seen it before someone with adverse intent has.
Standard sanctions screening checks the named counterparty. OSINT-based analysis checks the beneficial ownership chain. The gap between the two is where the risk lives.
A country risk rating tells you what happened there in the past. Pre-deployment intelligence tells you what is happening now, and what your team is about to walk into.
Before you finish your morning briefing, an adversary using nothing but public sources has already mapped your home address, your family, your travel patterns and three of your passwords from old data breaches. Here is the exact sequence.
Advanced Google operators expose board members in investor PDFs, shareholder registers, court filings and conference slide decks. Once indexed, that content does not disappear.
Data brokers aggregate public registries, social platforms and purchase histories into profiles. For European executives the illusion of GDPR protection is exactly that — an illusion.
EXIF coordinates in photographs. Dormant email accounts. A LinkedIn endorsement that confirms your undisclosed board seat. The gaps are consistent — and consistently exploited.
Attackers do not always target you directly. Your PA, your driver, your family — each is a node in a social graph that maps everything a direct search could not find.
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