Mathieu Gaucheler
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Mathieu Gaucheler
@shibasec.bsky.social
OSINT and cybersecurity. SME at Maltego.
Maltego machines / custom Transform / Talks in my GitHub: github.com/shibaOSINT/MaltegoMachines
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Both the school and the temple are in the same region, 40 km apart. Let's begin by exploring the road linking them on Google Street View: road number 2006. After a few minute we find the challenge's location: 13.9159829,101.8389441 (5/5)
October 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The third sign will require a bit more work, OCR does not give us anything useful but both phone numbers give us a result for a web search: a school and a cattery. The cattery does not have an address listed on its page and has not posted since 2016, let's discard it. (4/5)
October 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The first sign gives us"วัดโคกขี้เหล็ก" which after a quick web search leads us to a Buddhist Temple in Thailand (3/5)
October 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
First thing that we notice is the numerous signs in Thai script. After passing them through OCR and Google Translate we discover some useful information (2/5)
October 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
As a bonus, we can also search for the picture of the rainbow flag they used: searching "гей-флаг" on Yandex yields the exact same flag withing the first page of results.
April 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
April 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
By doing a reverse image search on the content of the Facebook post, we find this picture, showing which flag the people in our original photo are really holding. Several videos of the event have also been posted, not a single rainbow flag in sight.
April 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Searching the picture on Google Lens leads us to a Facebook post mentioning a demonstration in Tinzaouaten (Mali). It doesn't contain the original picture, but there is a similar one with some of the same people. An FLA (Azawad Liberation Front) flag can also be seen: cyan, yellow, red and white.
April 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Whenever you suspect that an image might have been altered, Error Level Analysis (ELA) can reveal areas likely to have been modified. For more information on how to use ELA, check out this Bellingcat article from @annique.bsky.social
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
April 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
For more on that subject you can read this thread by @tatarigami.bsky.social in collaboration with @casusbelli.bsky.social on a similar convoy from earlier this year.
In collaboration with @casusbelli.bsky.social, our team Frontelligence Insight investigated a large Russian convoy: over 100 vehicles, including tanks, trucks, IFVs, artillery, and other equipment, that rolled into Bamako, Mali. We've assessed its composition and origins. 🧵Thread:
April 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The gas station in the background allows us to geolocate the footage easily. It was taken on a roundabout at 12.612658°, -8.044582°. Shown on the 3rd image is the position of the two video as well as the direction of the convoy.
April 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We can confirm that this is the same convoy shown in the first video thanks to the painted marks on the trucks as well as their license plates. Here are a few examples.
April 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
104 trucks carrying a container, 3 tank trucks, 1 truck carrying a boat, 1 QY50KD crane from XCMG, 1 truck carrying a Lonking LG100DT diesel forklift, what appears to be towing and recovery unit Century 5230 from Miller Industries and 1 car bearing red crosses.
April 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM