Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
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Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
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Re: Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
#2You will be relieved to know that the military is on top of this and regularly trains for GPS jamming scenarios https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/information/gps-jamming-ex...
Re: Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
#3You will be relieved to know that the military is on top of this and regularly trains for GPS jamming scenarios https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/information/gps-jamming-ex...
If you RTFA, you'll note that jamming is different than spoofing. And no it doesn't make me feel relieved that the military "is on top of this". Whose military? Why should we trust them? State actors with the capability to spoof GPS signals can do much harm to even their own citizens.
Re: Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
#4the plot of Tomorrow Never Dies wasn't that far fetched after all?
Re: Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
#5You will be relieved to know that the military is on top of this and regularly trains for GPS jamming scenarios https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/information/gps-jamming-ex...
If you RTFA, you'll note that jamming is different than spoofing. And no it doesn't make me feel relieved that the military "is on top of this". Whose military? Why should we trust them? State actors with the capability to spoof GPS signals can do much harm to even their own citizens.
It's not comforting, indeed.
But you should know that the various space-based positioning systems (GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou etc) are deployed and administered by the respective governments of their countries of origin. They were invented for the military and can be selectively disabled or degraded for civilian users.
Does anyone think it's possible for non-governments to stand up replacements for these systems, from either a technical or legal / political perspective?
Re: Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
#6many NATO guided bombs, missiles and drones rely on GPS navigation
There are separate code sets for civilian and military GPS, and the latter should only be availability to US military equipment manufacturers. What I wonder is whether that means some NATO equipment will be misdirected by spoofing attacks and other will not, or if the attackers actually are able to spoof both types of signal.
Re: Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
#7Reminds me of the Iran–U.S. RQ-170 incident, when a CIA drone was captured by Iranian forces; one of the leading theories was GPS spoofing, although naturally Lockheed Martin denied that it was vulnerable to such a simple (for a nation state) attack.
Re: Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
#8Time to break out from storage: sextant, compass, paper map, ...
Re: Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
#9GPS goes wonky near the Kremlin, as every tourist knows.
Re: Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
#10This is fairly old news. Reports are a year or two old and suggest that Russian security uses GPS spoofing anywhere V. Putin may be located, presumably as a defense against drone type attacks or surveillance. The spoofed location is often an airport. The black sea spoofing could be related to a visit to e.g., Sochi.
Alternatively Russia could be deploying the spoofers on ships now, which would seem to have offensive implications as well as defense.
(sorry, no links)