Security News > 2021 > March > RedTorch Formed from Ashes of Norse Corp.

Remember Norse Corp., the company behind the interactive "Pew-pew" cyber attack map shown in the image below? Norse imploded rather suddenly in 2016 following a series of managerial missteps and funding debacles.

Now the top executives behind Norse Corp. are working on a new venture: A corporate security and investigations company called RedTorch that's based in Woodland Hills, Calif, the home of many Hollywood celebrities.

Now a cadre of former Norse Corp. employees who have been tracking the company's past executives say they've peered through the playful subterfuge in the anonymous corporate identities on the archived RedTorch website.

Pictured beside Mr. White is RedTorch's co-founder, "Mr. Grey." Norse watchers say that would be Tommy Stiansen, the Norwegian former co-founder of Norse Corp. whose LinkedIn profile says is now chief technology officer at RedTorch.

In its report, Norse said it saw a half-million attacks on industrial control systems by Iran in the previous 24 months - a 115 percent increase in attacks! But there was just one problem: The spike in attacks Norse cited weren't real attacks against actual industrial targets.

Around the same time, Stiansen was reportedly telling counterparts at competing security firms that Norse had data showing that the Sony Pictures hack in November 2014 - in which Sony's internal files and emails were published online - was in fact the work of a disgruntled insider at Sony.

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