Specialists from Ukraine’s Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA) in charge of recovering assets obtained from corruption and other crimes received open-source intelligence (OSINT) training under the OSINT Pathfinder programme of Dutch company Reuser’s Information Services.
The training was conducted by a teacher from from the Netherlands-based OSINT training and consultancy company Reuser’s Information Services, the agency announced. ARMA specialists completed their specialized training as part of the first round of Reuser’s OSINT Pathfinder program, studying OSINT methodology for gathering intelligence information from open sources such as social networks.
Among the main study topics were the use of portable software for systematic research, the importance of the Internet in the overall global open information landscape, its reliability and controllability, the deep web, the dark web, types of search engines and the application of modern strategies to reduce millions of search results to less than a thousand with high relevance.
ARMA officers extensively use OSINT when identifying and tracking assets, the agency said earlier in March. ARMA employees use Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines to collect this data, as well as special tools such as website and social network crawlers.
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