diff --git a/pkg/detectors/datadogtoken/datadogtoken.go b/pkg/detectors/datadogtoken/datadogtoken.go
index 962371923742..16b07b877caf 100644
--- a/pkg/detectors/datadogtoken/datadogtoken.go
+++ b/pkg/detectors/datadogtoken/datadogtoken.go
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ var (
 	client = common.SaneHttpClient()
 
 	// Make sure that your group is surrounded in boundary characters such as below to reduce false positives.
-	keyPat = regexp.MustCompile(detectors.PrefixRegex([]string{"datadog"}) + `\b([a-zA-Z-0-9]{40})\b`)
-	apiPat = regexp.MustCompile(detectors.PrefixRegex([]string{"datadog"}) + `\b([a-zA-Z-0-9]{32})\b`)
+	keyPat = regexp.MustCompile(detectors.PrefixRegex([]string{"datadog", "dd"}) + `\b([a-zA-Z-0-9]{40})\b`)
+	apiPat = regexp.MustCompile(detectors.PrefixRegex([]string{"datadog", "dd"}) + `\b([a-zA-Z-0-9]{32})\b`)
 )
 
 // Keywords are used for efficiently pre-filtering chunks.