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ShadowDragon develops digital investigation tools that empower Governments and organizations to safely identify threats, uncover malicious activity, and investigate personas across the internet. Specializing in open-source intelligence (OSINT), the company offers solutions that collect and analyze vast volumes of publicly available data from the surface, deep, and dark web.
ShadowDragon’s suite of tools—including SocialNet™, Monitor™, and the flagship platform Horizon™—helps security teams, law enforcement, and corporate investigators generate decision-grade intelligence with speed and precision. Its latest innovation, Horizon Identity™, enables users to build high-fidelity profiles in seconds by correlating fragmented online identities across hundreds of data sources.
With a focus on ethical use, operational efficiency, and investigator empowerment, ShadowDragon provides scalable tools designed to enhance human judgment—not replace it. Headquartered in the United States and trusted globally, ShadowDragon serves clients across Government, law enforcement, cybersecurity, intelligence, fraud prevention, and corporate security sectors.
There's 200+ Sites Shadowdragon is Monitoring
That's the amount of sites and services that ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.
A contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and many other U.S. government agencies has developed a tool that lets analysts more easily pull a target individual’s publicly available data from a wide array of sites, social networks, apps, and services across the web at once, including Bluesky, OnlyFans, and various Meta platforms, according to a leaked list of the sites. In all the list names more than 200 sites that the contractor, ShadowDragon, pulls data from and makes available to its government clients, allowing them to map out a person’s activity, movements, and relationships.
The news comes after, a prominent Columbia University protester and green card holding legal permanent resident of the U.S., on Saturday with the intention of deporting him. It also comes as Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly launching an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to scan the social media accounts for tens of thousands of student visa holders’ social media accounts, looking for what Axios reported as foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups.
There is no indication ShadowDragon specifically, or its data tool SocialNet, is part of that program. But ShadowDragon says in marketing material its tools can be used to monitor protests, and claims it found protests around Union Station in Washington DC during a 2023 visit by Benjamin Netanyahu. Daniel Clemens, ShadowDragon’s CEO, previously said on a podcast that protesters should not “be surprised when people are going to investigate you because you made their life difficult.”
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ShadowDragon Enters Strategic Partnership with Collaboraite and Vestigo to Build Trust in OSINT
(OSINT stands for Open Source Intelligence)
ShadowDragon™, a provider of ethical open-source intelligence (OSINT), unique datasets and APIs, is pleased to expand its partner ecosystem through a strategic partnership with both Collaboraite® and Vesitgo Consulting, which are part of the Investigo Group. Collaboraite provides data and digital consultancy focused on human centered data and artificial intelligence (AI) challenges, offering customized products and applications to enable digital transformations for secure partners.
Through this partnership, shared clients across the globe can now directly and securely access ShadowDragon OSINT investigative tools from within the Collaboraite platform and wider OSINT capabilities the group provides. Additionally, joint training courses will be offered in partnership with Vestigo® on how best to deal with the extensive operational challenges of safely and effectively researching on the internet, leveraging the extensive data sources within ShadowDragon.
Together, ShadowDragon, Collaboraite and Vestigo are offering increased layers of operational security for OSINT investigations, building a stronger relationship between the US and UK and the target customer base. This partnership will help operational users such as law enforcement (LE) and secure government communities solve complex problems and real operational challenges with better access to the right data.
The partnership is supporting the role of investigators and ensuring security by design and privacy by design environments. One of the key integration benefits is neutral enrichment, with ShadowDragon with strong advanced OSINT capabilities and analytics, and Collaboriate with controlled attribution and evidence capture.
Publicly available information (PAI) gleaned online is central to many of today’s law enforcement operations. Both victims of crime, and the criminals themselves, have online digital footprints holding key information that can ultimately support operational decisions about an investigation. This partnership will locate open-source information (OSINF) and context so it can be accessed across departments and agencies to reduce data silos, foster data sharing, and ultimately apply human context to generate intelligence with value.
“It is crucial that publicly sourced information and data collected by law enforcement and government agencies is secure. This partnership with Collaboraite builds on ShadowDragon’s long standing commitment to trust, aligning on values of trust in data, trust in technology, and trust in partners,” said Alex Sinvani, Senior Vice President EMEA, ShadowDragon. “We look forward to helping our shared clients benefit from data to solve some of the most challenging criminal cases in today’s threat landscape.”
ShadowDragon’s tools provide access to over 200 online data sources, including news and current affairs websites, social media, chatrooms, malware intelligence and historical datasets. This access ultimately reduces the friction typically involved with sourcing, collecting, and sorting publicly available information that is critical to modern investigations.
“There are countless case studies that prove the sharing of lawfully and securely obtained information, intelligence and data across law enforcement and partner agencies enables successful outcomes. We are thrilled to partner with ShadowDragon to support stronger information sharing across the secure government community” said Matt Stagg, CEO and Founder, Collaboraite. “The internet does not acknowledge borders and online criminality impacts a wide range of victims. Accessing relevant online information and public data from a wide number of sources, quickly, securely and lawfully to support investigators and researchers is vital to protect the public.”
About ShadowDragon
ShadowDragon provides comprehensive, cyber investigative resources and training for use by private companies, intelligence gathering professionals, law enforcement, and government. The U.S.-based company delivers open-source intelligence (OSINT) from over 200 networks including social media platforms, chat rooms, forums, historical datasets, and the dark web. The company monitors malware history, data breach dumps, and other areas for active cyber threats. These data collection and analytic tools help defend against malicious acts in the digital and physical world. For more information, visit the ShadowDragon Trust Center for details about the company’s approach to “OSINT for good.”
About Collaboraite
Collaboraite works with our community to design secure data related solutions to solve their operational challenges. We build bespoke, secure, user-centred products leveraging data, analytics and AI capabilities to support digital transformation. We equip our community through agile coaching and design thinking, delivered by experienced industry experts.
About Vestigo
Vestigo Consulting aims to provide Law Enforcement and Investigation and Intelligence agencies with the very best training required to excel in Internet Intelligence & Investigation, OSINT and digital policing. Whether your teams are seasoned investigators or brand new to the field, we can help you get to the next level.
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Tell Etsy, Reddit, Tinder & Duolingo: Stop Feeding Surveillance Tech
The websites and services we trust for shopping, socializing, and learning shouldn’t be tools for surveillance. Yet, a new investigation has revealed that ShadowDragon, a U.S. government contractor, is exploiting publicly available data from websites and services like Etsy, Reddit, Tinder, and Duolingo — to fuel mass surveillance programs for U.S. government agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
ShadowDragon’s SocialNet and similar tools track your connections, map your movements, and piece together your digital life, turning your ordinary online activity into a powerful surveillance tool. That’s why Mozilla is launching an urgent campaign targeting 30 key websites and services currently being used as fodder for shady surveillance tech, calling on them to:
Protect our data. Proactively detect and block surveillance tools like ShadowDragon’s SocialNet, which exploit the data we share with these websites and services.
Increase transparency. Publicly report known attempts by surveillance contractors like ShadowDragon to access user data, and what measures they have taken to stop and prevent it.
Strengthen privacy protections. Limit the exposure of our sensitive data and make privacy the default — so firms like ShadowDragon can’t easily exploit our conversations, connections, and activities online.