Web browser extensions are one of the simplest ways to get starting using open-source intelligence tools because they're cross-platform. So anyone using Chrome on Linux, macOS, and Windows can use them all the same. The same goes for Firefox. One desktop browser add-on, in particular, makes OSINT as easy as right-clicking to search for hashes, email addresses, and URLs.
Mitaka, created by Manabu Niseki, works in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Once installed, it lets you select and inspect certain pieces of text and indicators of compromise (IoC), running them through a variety of different search engines, all with just a few clicks. The tool can help investigators identify malware, determine the credibility of an email address, and see if a URL is associated with anything sketchy, to name just a few things.
Installing Mitaka in Your Browser
If you've ever installed a browser extension before, you know what to do. Even if not, it couldn't be easier. Just visit Mitaka in either the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-Ons, hit "Add to Chrome" or "Add to Firefox," then select "Add" to verify.
Then, once you've found something of interest on a website or in an email that you're investigating, all you need to do is highlight and right-click it, then look through all of the options Mitaka provides in the contextual menu. On the GitHub ..
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