Norse Corp. – Network Securitas

August 17, 2017

Blowing the Whistle on Bad Attribution

This post was originally published on this siteThe New York Times this week published a fascinating story about a young programmer in Ukraine who’d turned himself in to the local police. The Times says the man did so after one of his software tools was identified by the U.S. government as part of the arsenal used by Russian hackers suspected of hacking into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) last year. It’s a good read, as long as you can ignore that the premise of the piece is completely wrong. The story, “In Ukraine, a Malware Expert Who Could Blow the Whistle on Russian Hacking,” […]

March 22, 2021

RedTorch Formed from Ashes of Norse Corp.

This post was originally published on this siteRemember Norse Corp., the company behind the interactive “pew-pew” cyber attack map shown in the image blow? Norse imploded rather suddenly in 2016 following a series of managerial missteps and funding debacles. Now, the founders of Norse have launched a new company with a somewhat different vision: RedTorch, which for the past two years has marketed a mix of services to high end celebrity clients, including spying and anti-spying tools and services. A snapshot of Norse’s semi-live attack map, circa Jan. 2016. Norse’s attack map was everywhere for several years, and even became […]