Welcome back, aspiring cyberwarriors!

Lately we’ve been seeing a lot of posts about God’s Eye, a spy satellite simulator that runs in your browser. It’s a great tool developed by Bilawal Sidhu, but it requires certain paid APIs. Those APIs make the experience a lot richer, but they can be hard to get or you just don’t want to pay for them. That’s fine. For that reason we want to cover a fork developed by Gh0st-mods.

God’s Eye

God’s Eye is basically a website you run on your own computer that shows the Earth as a 3D globe with live public data on top of it. You can see planes in the air, ships at sea, some satellites, earthquakes and public traffic cameras. When you select those objects on the map, it tells you everything it knows about it. This can be its identity, speed, heading and other details. It looks like a spy movie. The data is just ordinary public feeds.

Let’s set up the fork and see how the free version works.

Setting Up

First, make sure you have all the dependencies installed.

kali > sudo apt update
kali > sudo apt install nodejs
kali > sudo apt install npm

Then clone the repository and install what it needs.

kali > git clone https://github.com/Gh0st-mods/Gods-Eye-Ghost-Edition.git
kali > cd Gods-Eye-Ghost-Edition
kali > npm install
kali > npm run dev -- --host localhost --port 4173

The app is available at http://localhost:4173, so we can open it in a browser.

Let’s walk through some of its features.

Data Layers

There are multiple data layers and many of them work without any API key. You can always add them to the .env file if you want a richer experience.

Aircraft Tracking

Each aircraft gets rendered in 3D flying over the Earth. You can switch visual presets too. Here we have a civil aircraft flying over the south of England.

Below you can see all the information on it.

Maritime Vehicles

These include transport and nontransport vessels. You’ll see plenty of them scattered across the globe. Here’s a tanker moored somewhere in Miami. Military vessels will also be shown on the map, so you can monitor their activity.

The satellite image quality looks good, since the tool sharpens it for you.

Dams

Water dams are part of critical infrastructure. Their locations are publicly available and integrated into the tool. Here is the Barro Blanco Dam in Panama. All critical facilities need good care and protection, especially during wartime, since they’re one of the things an enemy tries to attack.

Data Centers

Just like dams, data centers are important targets. If an enemy attacks data centers (drones/missiles, sabotage or cyberattacks) the result can be permanent data loss. Data centers are the physical backbone of banking, payments, logistics, government systems, AI and often military/cloud services. Hitting them will inflict economic and operational pain. The effects will cascade across almost everyone, even those who are completely offline.

One of these attacks happened recently when Iran attacked Amazon data centers.

Satellites and Earthquakes 

This isn’t the most notable feature on the platform, but it’s there and might be interesting to some. The data updates regularly. Below you can see several earthquakes hitting Japan in the last 24 hours. No surprise there, that region is highly seismic.

Summary

World monitoring apps are getting more popular. Some don’t even need to be installed, like Osiris. The original project by Bilawal Sidhu is great, but it still requires a paid Google API, which not everyone is comfortable with. The fork we covered today works for free out of the box. If you liked it, you might also want to check out ShadowBroker.

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