The Network Systems Department (NSD) of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Strategic Support Force, created in December 2015, appears to be the entity where military cyber operations are now based. It is a challenging collection target and many aspects of this PLA organization are still unknown.
The NSD is very rarely mentioned in open sources by its actual name. Instead, new data confirms that it uses the cover designator “32069 Unit.” Using this as a search term, some new information was di
