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Salle Louis Armand s3

AI agents are starting to change OSINT work, not because they replace analysts, but because they can take over parts of the research loop: searching, extracting, comparing sources, drafting briefs, and leaving traces that a human can inspect. This talk presents a practitioner’s view of that shift. It starts with the evolution of cyber horizon scanning from framework-based research and OSINT, to field intelligence and LLM-assisted synthesis, and now to supervised agentic workflows. Using the example of vulnerability research, it will discuss possible architectures built with currently available tools: local agents, web search, controlled tool access, locally hosted language models, cloud model escalation, and evidence traces that support human review. The talk will focus on architecture, token and privacy strategy, local versus cloud model routing, harnesses, evaluation loops, and the limits of automation. It ends with the next question: once agents help govern research workflows, how do we keep human judgment visible and accountable?

Salle Louis Armand s3

This talk will demonstrate a research project focused on transforming everyday tourist videos and walking tours into an automated investigative tool for tracking international fugitives. Attendees will discover how high-definition public footage can be leveraged for open-source intelligence, turning casual holiday backdrops into an effective search mechanism. By attending this session, you will explore a unique proof of concept for a localised facial recognition pipeline designed to scan video content for specific targets. You will walk away with a practical framework for automating target identification, understanding how open-source data can be harnessed to uncover individuals hiding in plain sight.

Salle Louis Armand s3

Analyzing manipulation campaigns on social media is a complex topic, especially when you want to draw an accurate and complete picture of the operation. Inauthentic accounts and posts are diluted in a huge ocean of legitimate content, but what if we had the ability to scan the entire ocean? In this talk, we will demonstrate 4 cases where we managed to uncover influence operations by using algorithms on very large datasets, including our findings on the infamous Russian operation against the 2024 Romanian elections.

Salle Louis Armand s3

This session dives into China’s OSINT ecosystem: how public and private actors intertwine to equip the Party-state with powerful capabilities to collect and exploit publicly available data. We’ll unpack the tools, workflows, and partnerships that sustain this system, with a particular focus on how information is extracted and processed from Chinese sources

Salle Louis Armand s3

As the mandate of Reporters sans frontières (RSF) has expanded, the organization launched its own investigations desk in 2022. Today, RSF is allocating dedicated resources and building innovative partnerships to take a deep dive into crimes committed against journalists, expose disinformation and propaganda operations, investigate the misuse of surveillance technologies, and shed light on the forces undermining media independence and pluralism. OSINT techniques have become part of RSF’s everyday investigative toolkit. This conference will offer a first glimpse behind the scenes of RSF’s investigative work: how facts are tracked and turned into impactful stories.

Salle Louis Armand s3

Help find the missing. Join the Trace Labs Search Party CTF at leHACK! The Trace Labs Search Party is a unique OSINT CTF where participants investigate real missing persons cases using open-source intelligence techniques. The intelligence gathered during the event is shared with partner organizations assisting families and law enforcement. Free and exclusively available to in-person leHACK attendees. Come learn, collaborate, and put your OSINT skills to work for a meaningful cause. A huge thank you to LGDD for supporting the event and serving as Trace Labs Coaches.

Salle Louis Armand s3

Lorand Bodo is an international civil servant at the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria (IIIM), where he works as an Internet Resources Analyst. In a personal capacity, Lorand Bodo will discuss the role of open source investigations in accountability efforts at the international level, drawing on practical experience in building investigative capacity, developing analytical workflows, and training initiatives. The talk will highlight how organizations can leverage open sources to support evidence-based investigations.

Salle Louis Armand s3

Phishing kits increasingly send stolen credentials straight into Telegram, posting them to a bot the operator controls. That design is also the weakness: anyone holding the bot token reads the same channel the operator does. At scale, that access becomes a view across the whole ecosystem, kept strictly aggregate: which sectors and regions the stolen data concentrates in, how large the victim pools actually are, and what the channels expose about the operators, who range from organized crews to people who plainly do not grasp the tool they deploy and keep treating their exfiltration feed as the private space it never was.

Salle Louis Armand s3

This study offers a cross-analysis of the circulation and reception of Russian and pro-Russian narratives in Moldova. The country currently serves as a testing ground for Russia to trial new techniques that are subsequently rolled out in other countries. It is also viewed by Moscow as a vulnerability for Europe, given that some of its citizens are able to move freely both within Russian-occupied Transnistria and within the Schengen Area. The investigation focused on Gagauzia, a southern region where a sense of marginalisation vis-à-vis Chișinău and Europe creates fertile ground for the penetration of Russian narratives. It combines ethnographic fieldwork with a digital investigation utilising cyber and OSINT methods, and has enabled us to uncover manoeuvres relying on clandestine broadcasting equipment, as well as Russian, Chinese and possibly even Iranian cybercriminal networks, used to disseminate narratives in Gagauzia.

Salle Louis Armand s3

The Digital Armoury maps the brief history of the global 3D-printed firearms ecosystem, from designers and design communities to files, distribution platforms, physical objects, end users, and emerging practices. The talk examines how digital designs circulate, evolve, and materialize, and how OSINT can help researchers and security professionals better understand the connection between the online movement and its potential real-world consequences.

Salle Louis Armand s3

How OSINT can help identify Russian spies in journalistic investigations : ethical considerations and real-world examples.

Salle Louis Armand s3

RUMPS are small talk sessions, where you can freely grab the mic to present random speech about hacking without control, censorship, pressure, and inside a 'plausible deniability' setup. No lineup, no recording, no endorsements, anonymity is guaranteed if needed but you bring your own countermeasures (face mask allowed). You take all responsibility for the topic you present, leHACK isn’t responsible for your speech, be wise and don’t break the law. See you on Louis Armand room, on S3 level, starting Saturday 27/06/2026 from 17:00 to 19:30. Format : 5 minutes, ABSOLUTELY NO CAMERA, NO RECORDING! We will enforce this and immediately remove offenders without warning. Send us your speech hints at CFP before Saturday noon !

Salle Louis Armand s3

Come learn and show off your GeoGuessr skills at this IRL workshop organized by OpenFacto.