Chinese Military Unit Linked to Cyber Espionage Campaign Targeting India


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Recorded Future, a US security firm, revealed a cyber espionage campaign linked to a suspected Chinese state-sponsored threat activity group, named RedFoxtrot. Recorded Future's threat research arm Insikt Group, discovered evidence dating back to 2014 that interconnects RedFoxtrot and Chinese military-intelligence apparatus, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Unit 69010. Before restructuring in 2015, PLA’s cyber-attack unit 69010 was known as the Lanzhou Military Region’s Second Technical Reconnaissance Bureau, and now it has been incorporated into the Network Systems Department of the PLA’s Strategic Support Force (SSF). According to a report published by Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, cybersecurity experts have detected...