More sources for news and dataleaks

Your keywords are now used for monitoring more sources in the categories you have already specified. On top of that, we've also added more countries. The US, UK and Netherlands were already available, and Australia, Canada and Germany are new. The newsites we monitor are typically the biggest national newspapers and some local newspaper in big cities.

We've also scoured the internet for more copy-paste sites to monitor. If you're not sure why this is useful, read up on it at haveibeenpwnd.com/pastes. There are sites that claim they will search 90+ datadumpsites for you. That is a bold claim, so we checked it.

A lot of the the 90+ copy-paste sites listed are dead links, have errors or have the domainname for sale. For those that do work there is no API or feed with recent posts available to search them. You can post a message and directly after posting you'll get a url linking to your post. If you don't share this url openly yourself, nobody will know about the post or de data you dumped in it. The 9 remaining sites that were useful are added to ShadowTrackr, but to be honest these are mostly sites to share code. In our experience spicy datadumps are rarely found on specific code sharing sites.

We have been monitoring 10 (from today this is 19) of the bigger pastesites for months now with keywords like "botnet". About 80% of the hits we get are from pastebin.com, which is by far the largest of the dumpsites if you look at both volume and the rate at which new posts appear. It's good to look around for changes in de dumpsite landscape every now and then, but at the moment the effort is unlikely to pay off and we better use the time for other items on the todo list.

If you do miss a newsite or dumpsite that you want us to monitor, or if you want to check if your favorite site is included, please contact support.

Well, that was stupid. According to our site stats there are more visitors from India and Ireland than from Canada. Newssites from those countries are now added too.