GEOINT · SYNTHETIC CASE2026-03-12 · 8 min
Geolocating a photo from shadow angle and a manhole pattern
One street photo, no EXIF, no landmarks in frame. We pivoted from sun azimuth + a municipal manhole casting to a three-block radius — then killed two false positives by hand.
Outcome: City district confirmed; exact building narrowed to two candidates pending ground truth.
Read full log →IDENTITY · SYNTHETIC CASE2026-02-04 · 6 min
Linking a sock puppet to a real operator via recovery metadata
Fresh Discord account, burner email, VPN IP. The break wasn't a breach dump — it was a partial recovery hint and a reused username from a 2019 forum scrape.
Outcome: Two accounts tied to same operator with high confidence; no doxxing published.
Read full log →BREACH · SYNTHETIC CASE2026-01-18 · 5 min
From corporate domain to exposed dev credentials
Client asked 'are we in stealer logs?' Automated scanners said no. Manual Hudson + stealer correlation found a contractor Jenkins token in a combo list.
Outcome: Credential rotated within SLA; no production access confirmed.
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