Increased GPS “spoofing,” a kind of cyberattack that can cause commercial aircraft to veer off course, has been observed by cybersecurity researchers.
Researchers studying cybersecurity have noticed a rise in GPS “spoofing,” a type of digital attack that can cause commercial airplanes to deviate from their intended route. the capacity to manipulate time.
According to aviation advisory group OPSGROUP, there has been a 400% increase in GPS spoofing, events that impact commercial airlines in recent months. In an attempt to confuse approaching drones or missiles, a number of those occurrences use illegal ground-based GPS devices, especially in war areas where they broadcast inaccurate positions to the surrounding airspace.
Founder of British cybersecurity company Pen Test Partners Ken Munro stated, “We think too much about GPS being a source of position, but it’s actually a source of time,” during a presentation on Saturday at the DEF CON hacking convention in Las Vegas.
“We’re beginning to hear reports of strange things happening to the clocks on airplanes during spoofing events.”
Munro mentioned a recent event in an interview wherein the onboard clocks of a major Western airline aircraft were unexpectedly advanced by years, resulting in the plane’s inability to access its digitally encrypted communication systems.
Munro claimed that as engineers manually reset the plane’s onboard systems, the aircraft was grounded for weeks. He refused to say which airline or which aircraft it was.
April saw the opening of new tab flights by Finnair (FIA1S.HE) to Tartu in eastern Estonia, which had been temporarily halted owing to GPS spoofing that Tallin attributed to nearby Russia.
The Global Positioning System, or GPS for short, has mostly taken the place of pricey ground instruments that direct aircraft toward landing by transmitting radio beams. On the other hand, it is also not too difficult to block or tamper with GPS signals using readily available, reasonably priced parts and a minimal level of technological expertise.
Will it cause an aircraft to crash? It’s not, Munro clarified.
All it accomplishes is a small amount of confusion. Additionally, you run the risk of initiating what’s known as a “cascade of events,” in which a minor incident leads to another minor incident and ultimately a major incident.”
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