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.

        • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1312·
          1 year ago

          Lemmy is starting to feel like Discord with people dropping lazy images like this in every damn thread.

          • Derproid@lemm.eeEnglish
            15·
            1 year ago

            Literally couldn’t even bother to edit the image so the country names are in the image.

              • Confused_Emus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                81·
                1 year ago

                has enough literacy skills to pick up on humor in more than just the shared image

                I thought it was funny, anyway…

                • nixcamic@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Thanks yeah one of my kids had a chronic condition so it’s not really anything unexpected but also not fun and just a ton of waiting.

                  • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pubEnglish
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    Yeah,I’ve spent too much time in hospitals with a kid this year. It’s the waiting and uncertainty that are the worst.

    • gibmiser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4819·
      1 year ago

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

      • Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        1 year 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
      24·
      1 year 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
      163·
      1 year 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.