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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Welcome back, aspiring investigators!

We recently updated our article on ShadowBroker, which a lot of you liked. The latest release brought some new features and made the dashboard even richer.

But ShadowBroker is resource intensive and might need you to allocate a good chunk of resources to your VM, which not all systems have. Instead, there’s Osiris and it can do similar things without any installation. You can run it in the browser or host it on your Kali. Both versions are identical.

Osiris

Osiris is a global intelligence dashboard that aggregates live flight tracking, CCTV, earthquake monitoring, conflict zone mapping and 24/7 news feeds. It’s made to give you situational awareness across multiple intelligence domains. The tool was built with Next.js 16 and MapLibre GL and every data point is rendered via WebGL for 60fps performance even with thousands of concurrent entities on screen.

Dashboard

Let’s start with the live version. It’s available here.

The world looks busy once you enable all the data layers on the left side of the screen.

Camera Feeds

There’s a huge number of cameras available around the world that are free to access. They are usually scattered across different websites and don’t look nearly as good as they do on a map. The dashboard has integrated a big number of them, marked with green dots on the map.

Here’s a camera in Toronto. Looks empty at 5 am.

Aircraft Tracking

All kinds of aircraft and maritime vehicles can be tracked. Not only that, you can do a deep dive on the intel available for each one. Below you can see we picked a random flight over the UAE and the dashboard pulled up the company it belongs to, Tim Clark who is the CEO and some publicly known information on him.

You can do similar things with other objects on the map.

So if you’re monitoring military activity in a certain region, that can come in handy.

Critical Infrastructure

There are different data assets you can display by clicking the database icon on the right side of the screen. The data is relevant for various places, but mostly for the US.

Above you can see the critical infrastructure in New York (red) and nationwide (yellow).

Conflicts and Dangerous Zones

Wars, tensions and threats are differentiated by color and notes are assigned to each with a severity level.

Market Analysis

When someone loses, someone else wins. Osiris can do some Market AI overview, which you obviously shouldn’t take as legit advice. But you can see it does some basic analysis and warns of potential price spikes.

Satellite Tracking

All kinds of satellites are available on the dashboard and they can also be tracked. Here you can see Starlink flying over the Atlantic and Canada.

Malware Threats

Finally, you can view malware threats and attacks on the map. There was a big node in China linked to a lot of attacks, with more scattered around the rest of the country.

Hosting Locally

Although the live version is stable and its uptime is good, you might still want to run it locally. It’s pretty easy to set up:

kali > sudo apt install npm
kali > git clone https://github.com/simplifaisoul/osiris.git
kali > cd osiris
kali > npm audit fix --force
kali > npm run dev

Then it’ll be available at http://localhost:3000

Summary

As you can see, there are different platforms available for different setups. Having compared the two, ShadowBroker looks richer and more professional, but Osiris hosts a live version you can use without any installation and it already has most of what you’d want to test. The installation itself is quick and easy and the dashboard consumes way fewer resources than ShadowBroker. Test it yourself and see what you like.

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