In early February 2016, Norse Corp was disintegrating.

The high profile security startup, which described itself as, quote, the world's largest

dedicated threat intelligence network and was widely known for

its innovative live attack map technology was falling apart. Its website went dark. Its new CEO, appointed just weeks earlier after the previous CEO was fired,

told employees that they were welcomed to show up to work, but there's no guarantee that they will be paid.

Norse for all intents and purposes was dead.

It was a horrible death, perhaps even the worst demise that a business can experience, complete with allegations about scams, bitter blog posts from former employees and public clashes on Twitter.

It was pretty dramatic.

In fact, I don't know of another cyber security firm that had as dramatic of a demise

as Norris did. It was pretty spectacular. Hi, I'm Ryan Levy.

Welcome to Cyber Reasons's malicious life. A few days earlier.

On February 1st, 2016,

Ryan Krebs published in his Uber Popular blog,

Krebs on security.com, an article with the headline sources security firm

Norse Corp imploding. In his article, Krebs reported that Norse's CEO and

co-founder,

Sam Glines, was asked to step down by the company's board of directors.

Krebs then goes on to voice accusations from former employees of the company such as Mary Lantzman, a data scientist who joined Norse in 2014.

Quote, I realized that, oh crap, I think this is a scam

Lensman said they're trying to draw this out and tap into whatever the

buzzwords du jour there are and have a product that's going to meet that and suck in new investors."

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