How to Use DigitalStakeout OSINT Tools

Overview of DigitalStakeout's OSINT tools and links to detailed usage guides for social, domain, breach, and chatter-based investigations.

How to Use DigitalStakeout OSINT Tools

DigitalStakeout XTI provides specialized search engines built for targeted discovery and analysis across the web, dark web, and structured datasets. Each OSINT tool supports real-time queries and can be converted into automated monitors for persistent surveillance of threats, exposures, or signals tied to people, infrastructure, or content.

These tools are designed for practitioners in:

  • Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)
  • Executive Protection & Brand Monitoring
  • Fraud & Abuse Investigations
  • Security Operations (SOC/IR)

Available OSINT Tools & Usage Guides

Each link below leads to a step-by-step usage guide for the corresponding tool:

  • 🔍 Social Media Profile Search
    Identify social handles, brand impersonations, or unknown accounts across 750+ platforms.

  • 🌐 Website Search
    Find websites based on homepage content, outbound social media links, or meta tags.

  • 📡 Domain Search
    Investigate infrastructure via DNS, WHOIS, subdomains, cert logs, and IP associations.

  • 🧭 Location-Based Social Media Search
    Search for geotagged posts across public social platforms by place, radius, or name.

  • 💬 Web Chatter Search
    Monitor real-time posts from forums, pastebins, social sites, and dark web services.

  • 👤 People Search
    Discover people records using names, usernames, emails, or phone numbers.

  • 🛡️ Data Breach Search
    Query breach repositories using emails, SSNs, credit cards, and other selectors.


Pro Tip: Convert Searches into Monitors

Every search engine supports:

  • Saved queries
  • Scheduled search execution
  • Alerting for new matches
  • Integration with Profile Tracker and Presence/Keyword Feeds

This allows you to operationalize discovery into a full monitoring pipeline for risk, threat, or brand-related observables.


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