--- title: How to Learn OSINT for Free | daily.dev description: Maltego, an OSINT investigation platform launched in 2008, offers free tiers (Basic and Basic Plus) for students, researchers, NGOs, and investigators to learn... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-learn-osint-for-free-ymvlqf6iq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Learn OSINT for Free | daily.dev og:description: Maltego, an OSINT investigation platform launched in 2008, offers free tiers (Basic and Basic Plus) for students, researchers, NGOs, and investigators to learn... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-learn-osint-for-free-ymvlqf6iq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YMvLQF6Iq.png og:image:alt: How to Learn OSINT for Free og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Learn OSINT for Free **[David Bombal](https://daily.dev/sources/davidbombal)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Maltego, an OSINT investigation platform launched in 2008, offers free tiers (Basic and Basic Plus) for students, researchers, NGOs, and investigators to learn open-source intelligence workflows. The platform has supported over a million investigations and is used by thousands of government organizations and companies. It also provides education grants, an academy with webinars and white papers, a community CTF, a Discord community, and podcast content to help build OSINT skills, emphasizing that validating and cross-referencing information is now more critical than simply collecting it. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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