EPCYBER
Online Training Program · 2026

CHINA OSINT MASTER TRAINING PROGRAM

  • Full Expanded Modules: OSINT, IMINT, GEOINT, SOCMINT (QQ included), Cyber Intelligence & Corporate
  • Comprehensive 'Adversary Military Intelligence' focus & dedicated modules
  • 3 Custom Request Credits - bypass platform of choice or research
  • 3 Fresh Updated Content Publications so you can work with latest methodologies
  • Real-life exercises to practice OSINT real people, entities (corp, mil)
  • Newly updated methodologies, techniques, frameworks latest of 2026
  • 6 Months of Access & Support via the EPCYBER Training Platform
  • Hands-On Labs · Field Exercises · Exam · Certificate · 5 Live Lessons
  • Double the content compared to 2025
See inside the content → See full syllabus
Curriculum

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Module 01
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Module 1

The China OSINT Mindset: Where Western Tradecraft Breaks

Before you can investigate China, you have to unlearn how the West taught you to investigate. This module rewires how you think — exposing why standard tools, search habits, and assumptions collapse the moment they hit China's internet. You'll understand the architecture of control from the inside: censorship layers, real-name policies, and access walls built specifically to stop people like you. By the end, you're not guessing at China's ecosystem — you're fully seeing the bigger picture.

Module 2

Breaking China's Linguistic Barriers

Language is the wall that turns away the vast majority of Western analysts — and the one you'll learn to walk straight through. You'll search in Chinese with precision, catch the mistranslations that quietly wreck investigations, and decode the slang, coded language, and cultural context that machine translation never sees. You'll learn to investigate names, identities, and people accurately in a language and in platforms built to resist Western eyes — and stop making the mistakes that give Western analysts away instantly.

Module 3

Building Real OSINT Tradecraft

This is where capability gets built. A hands-on deep dive across every core discipline on the deepest level — Full expanded modules of OSINT, GEOINT, IMINT, SOCMINT (QQ included), and corporate intelligence — taught through real Chinese platforms most Westerners don't even know exist. You'll work with custom frameworks, methodologies, tools, and field-tested workflows, learning through real case studies and live exercises how to pull actionable intelligence out of China's ecosystem even when it seems impossible.

Module 4

Bypassing the Unbypassable

The module that defines what EPCYBER is known for. You'll defeat the access controls that stop everyone else: the +86 mobile requirement, registration and verification walls, and the geo and technical blocks that make off-the-shelf VPNs and flagged tools useless. You'll learn to register, hold, and operate accounts like a local, find the weak points in China's controls, and apply manual methods that keep working when automation dies. Paired with the OPSEC to stay low-profile and keep your access alive for the long haul.

Module 5

China's Cyber Threat Ecosystem

Go where the threat actually lives. This module takes you deep into China-specific cyber threat intelligence — mapping threat actors (not APT), working dark and deep web spaces, and tracking leaks and hacking activity in real time. You'll learn safe engagement through avatars, vHUMINT tradecraft, and how to build credible personas that earn deeper access. This is the difference between reading about China's cyber underground and operating inside it, even without linguistic abilities.

Module 6

Adversary Military Intelligence

The capstone — and the module no other China OSINT course offers at such scale. You'll learn to track dual-use technology as it moves between civilian and military hands, monitor military activity and movement, and map the strategic people, entities, and facilities that matter most. This is intelligence work at the sharpest end: turning open sources into a picture of an adversary's military reality. The module that separates an EPCYBER Master student from everyone else.

The outcome

WALK AWAY ABLE TO DO WHAT MOST WESTERN ANALYSTS CAN'T

01

Get In Where Others Can't

Bypass the access controls that stop most Western investigators cold — GEO-based DPI (Deep Packet Inspection), platform-specific blocks, the +86 mobile requirement for sock puppets, and linguistic barriers that quietly distort results. Manual, field-tested methods that work when VPNs and flagged tools fail.

02

Navigate China Like a Local

Search in Chinese with intent, read what you're actually looking at, and find accurate results fast. Learn to pivot fluently from one lead to the next and move through China's layered ecosystem the way someone inside it does — not the way an outsider guesses and not like a tourist.

03

Never Depend on a Single Tool Again

When a method breaks, you build the next one. This is the skill that outlasts every tool: independently developing new bypass techniques, surfacing new sources, and discovering the groups, channels, and platforms that matter — so your capability compounds instead of expiring.

04

Run Full-Spectrum Investigations

Conduct end-to-end OSINT operations at any depth across SOCMINT, GEOINT, IMINT, Corporate, and Cyber Intelligence. Collect, pinpoint, and cross-match data points across networks and platforms to build a complete intelligence picture — not scattered facts.

05

Living Curriculum — updates while your access is active

China's platforms and access controls change constantly, so your training does too. While your enrollment is active, you receive new techniques, methods, and case studies as our team develops them — so you're always working with current tradecraft, EPCYBER's unique value.

Inside the content

A LOOK INSIDE: CHINA OSINT TRADECRAFT

Adversary Military Intelligence

SOCMINT: Bypassing Access

Find Your Targets For OSINT

Corporate Intelligence in China

Identifying Leaks

GEOINT: Identifying Locations

Sneak peek

SEE CHINA OSINT IN ACTION

Bypassing CSDN without an account

China's internet isn't just censored — it's layered with restrictions. From apps limiting downloads and installs, to GEO-based blocks that defeat most VPNs, and captchas that Westerns can't solve.

One unique restriction? Platforms like CSDN that block full content unless you're logged in (using a +86).

In this video, we show you exactly how to bypass that — and access the full content without needing an account. Step by step.

Live bypass: QCC.com & Tianyancha

In this video, we demonstrate—live—how to bypass platforms like QCC.com and Tianyancha, China's leading corporate intelligence sites. These sites often block access using DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) or geo-restrictions, making simple tools like VPNs useless. We show you exactly how to get around those blocks effectively.

12-minute investigative session

In this brief 12 minute sneak peek with you so you can get a good idea of how detailed and comprehensive our lessons are, these are called 'investigative sessions' where you get an inside view into the step by step, how we explore, how we search, how we find information and pivot from it in China's complex ecosystem. How do we search or go from incorrect searching to the right one in Chinese as a Western investigator, to not waste time, be accurate ...

Eligibility

Course Terms

Important

This training is ONLY for active Western personnel in:

GovernmentMilitaryIntelligenceFederalDefense

If you're with a government agency, federal body, military, or intelligence organization — go ahead and purchase directly. Just follow up with us afterward using your corporate email.

If you're unsure whether your organization qualifies — please email us first before clicking PayPal. This way we can confirm your eligibility upfront and you avoid losing up to 10% in PayPal refund fees in the event of a non-qualifying purchase.

Wire Transfer is available upon request.

CHINA OSINT MASTER ONLINE TRAINING PROGRAM FEE €35,000
Cards accepted

BUILD UNMATCHED CHINA-OSINT INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITIES

Questions

FAQ

Please contact us if you cannot find an answer to your question, our team is available at team@epcyber.com

01How hands-on is it — do I work on real cases

Heavily, yes. This isn't slides you watch and forget. Every section is built around real-life examples, breakdowns of actual investigations, and exercises you run yourself — accessing real platforms, working real sources, and pivoting through real data the way you would on the job. You see the method demonstrated step by step, then you do it. The "investigative sessions" take you inside the screen: how we search, where we go wrong, how we correct, and how we get to the right result without wasting time. By the end you've practiced the workflow, not just seen it - and you know exactly how it is applied on real life subjects or entities.

02What are Custom Request Credits

Custom Request Credits are included with the China OSINT Master program — each credit lets you submit one custom request to our team. You can use a credit to request custom research on an entity of interest, or to request a bypass/access method for a specific platform you're working with (per possibility). Master enrollment includes 3 credits, redeemable any time during your access window. It's a direct line to the team for the problems your own work actually runs into.

03What are Fresh Updated Content Publications

China's platforms, access controls, unique ecosystem and restrictions change constantly — a method that works today can break next quarter. Fresh Updated Content Publications are new lessons, search strategies, tips, methodologies, frameworks, techniques, and case studies we share with you on an ongoing basis as our team develops and field-tests them. While your enrollment is active, these land directly in your training platform, so you're always working with current tradecraft rather than last year's. The Master program includes 3 publications.

Please note that the topic and focus of each publication are determined at our discretion. You're always welcome to email us with a direction of interest or a subject you'd like to see covered, and we genuinely appreciate the input — but the final choice of topic rests with us. The same applies to timing: the specific dates, intervals, and frequency of publications are set at our discretion and aren't tied to a fixed schedule.

04Do I need to speak Chinese

No — and that's a core part of what the training fixes. Most Western analysts either avoid Chinese-language sources entirely or run them through a translator and trust whatever comes back. You'll learn to do neither. You'll search in Chinese with intent, recognize when a translation has quietly mangled the meaning, and read slang, abbreviations, and context the way it's actually used — not the way a dictionary renders it. You don't arrive fluent and you don't leave fluent; you leave able to work in the language, deeply, which is the part that actually matters for an investigation.

05Live Support & Q&A Sessions

Throughout your enrollment you have direct access to support and scheduled live Q&A sessions. Bring questions from any module, work through challenges you're hitting in your own investigations, and get answers from the team directly — not a ticket queue. Master-tier students receive premium priority support.

06Will I get help if I'm stuck during an exercise

Of course. If you hit a wall partway through an exercise or investigation, you're not left on your own — you have direct access to the team for questions throughout your enrollment, plus live Q&A sessions where you can work through exactly where you're stuck. The whole point is that you come out able to do this independently, so we make sure you get there.

07Is there an exam

Yes. The EPCYBER Training Platform includes structured exam components built into this program. Your progression through the course and the automatic issuance of your certificate are tied to exam completion and required passing thresholds. Exams are not memorization-based. They are designed to validate that you can apply the methods, techniques, and frameworks taught in the course to realistic scenarios. Hands-on practice throughout the course remains the foundation — exams confirm the core knowledge along the way.

08What happens if I don't pass the exam

No pressure and no single shot — you have up to 10 retakes. The exam is there to confirm you've genuinely absorbed the tradecraft, not to trip you up, so if you don't pass the first time you simply review the material and try again. Most people who put the work in pass comfortably.

09What does the certificate represent

More than completion. Your EPCYBER certificate represents real, demonstrated capability — that you can navigate China's digital ecosystem fluently and independently, and find what needs to be found. It's confirmation that you've done the work and built the skills.

10Can my whole team enroll together

Yes. We offer group rates for teams, along with custom corporate bundles. Reach out at sales@epcyber.com with your team size and what you're after, and we'll put together the right arrangement for you.

11Which training is right for me

It depends on where you're starting and how deep you need to go.

  • Essentials is the entry point — for people new to China OSINT who want to understand the landscape and build fundamentals.
  • The single-platform courses (WeChat, Zhihu) and SOCMINT are focused builds if you need depth in one area.
  • Advanced is the full discipline — OSINT, IMINT, GEOINT, SOCMINT, Corporate, and Cyber — for practitioners who want complete working capability.
  • Master is the top tier: everything in Advanced plus adversary military intelligence, custom request credits, and the most content and support, built for government, defense, and intelligence teams.

If you're not sure, email us with your background and what you're trying to accomplish, and we'll point you to the right fit.

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