Researchers have identified links between a suspected Chinese regime-sponsored hacker group and a military unit in northwest China, which has been threatening cybersecurity in neighboring countries since 2014. The RedFoxtrot group is part of Beijing’s cyber espionage efforts tied with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Unit 69010, which is “likely interested in gathering intelligence on military technology and defense,” according to a June report by the Insikt Group, a research division under U.S. cybersecurity company Recorded Future. Unit 69010, located in Urumqi, capital of China’s Xinjiang region, also likely has multiple subordinates primarily assigned to observe military activities along China’s western border, researchers found. It was the operational defects of a suspected RedFoxtrot operator that disclosed the connection between RedFoxtrot’s operational infrastructure and the physical address of the headquarters of the PLA Unit 69010. Moreover, the unnamed operator was detected to be associated with the PLA’s former Communications Command Academy in …