Many security specialists will be familiar with these types of projects and will use them often for their security audits. I speak specifically of OSRFramework, a utility formed by a set of frameworks and libraries under the GPLv3 license of the OSINT (Open-Source INTelligence) type, that is, open intelligence software. In addition, as an advance in the title, this project germinated in Spain, therefore it has its origin in our country.
This type of software, and the existing alternatives, which are quite a few, is used to collect all kinds of data about other users that connect to the Internet, following their trail beyond what we can imagine if we do not have computer security knowledge. OSRFramework we owe it to Yaiza Rubio and Féliz Brezo, the two main developers of this tool, to track this information to which we refer. In addition to its activity over the network, OSRFramework is also capable of locating users within the so-called Deep Web or the deep Internet.
All thanks to complex intelligence algorithms that this software integrates to carry out its mission. If you are interested in knowing how it is made, to better know how it works, you can see its code and download it from GitHub. To analyze it you must have knowledge of the Python programming language, since it is the one that its developers have used to create it. This language also gives it the ability to be used in any operating system, making it portable.
Among the latests Moravia's compositions daily Homeworks For which it is used, they range from investigating cybercriminals or the trail of suspects through the network to obtain data for trials by providing them as evidence, or catching their misdeeds, to other tasks such as monitoring users within a security audit made to a company, etc. Of course, as with everything, it can also be used for evil ...