New "spoofing" attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is "highly significant" for airline safety.

Commercial Flights Are Experiencing ‘Unthinkable’ GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do::New “spoofing” attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is “highly significant” for airline safety.

  • cashsky@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17610·
    11 months ago

    TL:DR: Israel and Iran are the source of the spoofing.

    Edited*

    • gibmiser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4920·
      11 months ago

      Wow. The state of Israel is really piling on the reasons to hate it these days.

      • Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        51·
        11 months ago

        It was doing this for decades but Western countries only start hearing about it.

        Social media have prevailed over classic media, and this time they have proven to be harder to steer.

    • newnton@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      25·
      11 months ago

      The article says the spoofing was first recorded in September from Iran, then Israel started doing some after the October Hammas attacks

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
      153·
      11 months ago

      Iran has been doing this shit for decades. I’m sure Israel has too.

      Basically, they figure out what a GPS receiver would hear if it was receiving signals from a specific location, say “London”. They then broadcast those exact signals. Any receiver that hears them now thinks it is in “London”.

      Start with the aircraft’s actual position, and update the spoofed location based where it actually is and and its intended destination, and you can get it to go where you want it.

      If the aircraft is trying to fly to London, for example, and you want it to turn to the east of its track, you start spoofing that it has drifted west on its track to London. The aircraft thinks it is west of London, and turns to the east to get to spoofed-London.