Report deems Russia a pioneer in GPS spoofing attacks
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Re: Report deems Russia a pioneer in GPS spoofing attacks
#2Would these kind of attacks be made redundant by Galileo?
Re: Report deems Russia a pioneer in GPS spoofing attacks
#3To be fair, the report is authored by an US entity. I'm sure if they could have studied US operations without losing their funding they would have found similar deployments by US forces, albeit, I think not as widespread. The US has always seemed to have better tech, and GPS spoofing is cheap, from what the article states, which makes it ideal for the cash-bootstrapped Russian military.
Re: Report deems Russia a pioneer in GPS spoofing attacks
#4GPS is routinely spoofed in area around Kremlin, for a couple of years already, to a great annoyance of drivers and runners. Coordinates are replaced by those from Vnukovo airport. It seems they try to prevent operations of consumer grade drones, many of them refuse to fly near known airports.
Re: Report deems Russia a pioneer in GPS spoofing attacks
#5Would these kind of attacks be made redundant by Galileo?
Does Galileo work somehow differently as opposed to GPS?
Re: Report deems Russia a pioneer in GPS spoofing attacks
#6Would these kind of attacks be made redundant by Galileo?
Does Galileo work somehow differently as opposed to GPS?
I recall reading that the Galileo signals have some built in authentication scheme, e.g. something along the lines of what is mentioned here: https://www.gsa.europa.eu/newsroom/news/new-funding-opportun...
I would have thought that the military level GPS signals might have something similar already.
Re: Report deems Russia a pioneer in GPS spoofing attacks
#7GPS is routinely spoofed in area around Kremlin, for a couple of years already, to a great annoyance of drivers and runners. Coordinates are replaced by those from Vnukovo airport. It seems they try to prevent operations of consumer grade drones, many of them refuse to fly near known airports.
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Re: Report deems Russia a pioneer in GPS spoofing attacks
#8GPS is routinely spoofed in area around Kremlin, for a couple of years already, to a great annoyance of drivers and runners. Coordinates are replaced by those from Vnukovo airport. It seems they try to prevent operations of consumer grade drones, many of them refuse to fly near known airports.
I would like to think that, having done research on GPS spoofing and being generally interested in GPS, I would have heard of this before if it were routinely done anywhere in the world. It sounds like you don't have this from an online source but from first-hand experience. Did anyone write this up? Is there local news about it perhaps?
Re: Report deems Russia a pioneer in GPS spoofing attacks
#9GPS is routinely spoofed in area around Kremlin, for a couple of years already, to a great annoyance of drivers and runners. Coordinates are replaced by those from Vnukovo airport. It seems they try to prevent operations of consumer grade drones, many of them refuse to fly near known airports.
I would like to think that, having done research on GPS spoofing and being generally interested in GPS, I would have heard of this before if it were routinely done anywhere in the world. It sounds like you don't have this from an online source but from first-hand experience. Did anyone write this up? Is there local news about it perhaps?
I did not dig up for a detailed technical write up, but have a plenty media sites mentions (sorry for original Russian content):
Just news, mentioning this, back to 2016 https://lenta.ru/articles/2016/11/07/gpsoff/
Nice write up, also from 2016 https://meduza.io/feature/2016/10/19/teleportatsiya-iz-kreml...
News from Jan, 2018 https://snob.ru/news/156463
Nov, 2018 https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/2018/11/12/786188-kre...
Hope that helps!
P.S. And yes, I personally see this behaviour near Kremlin. It's almost impossible to order a taxi nearby.
Re: Report deems Russia a pioneer in GPS spoofing attacks
#10One thing the Manning leaks taught me is that if it can be done, it is being done. GPS spoofing is demonstrably effective at a variety of tasks including straight-up stealing military drones, therefore it is being done across the globe.