Israeli Air Base Is Linked to GPS ‘Spoofing’ Attacks

Europe|An Israeli aerial basal is simply a root of GPS ‘spoofing’ attacks, researchers say.

Researchers astatine the University of Texas astatine Austin person identified an Israeli aerial basal arsenic a cardinal root of GPS attacks that person disrupted civilian hose navigation successful the Middle East.

The attacks, known arsenic spoofing, send retired manipulated GPS signals that marque airplane instruments misread their location.

The researchers, Todd Humphreys and Zach Clements, said they are “highly confident” that the spoofing attacks originated from Ein Shemer Airfield successful bluish Israel. The Israeli subject declined to remark connected Tuesday.

The researchers utilized information that was emitted by the spoofer and picked up by satellites successful low-Earth orbit to find its location. They past confirmed their calculations utilizing information they collected connected the crushed successful Israel.

Spoofing, on with GPS jamming, has sharply risen implicit the past 3 years, peculiarly adjacent warfare zones successful Ukraine and Gaza, wherever militaries interfere with navigation signals to thwart rocket and drone attacks.

The Middle East has emerged arsenic a spoofing blistery spot. The University of Texas researchers did not accidental however galore spoofing attacks they had linked to the subject base, but a abstracted investigation estimated that much than 50,000 flights person been spoofed successful the portion this year.

The attacks person made pilots deliberation that they were supra airports successful Beirut oregon Cairo erstwhile they were not, according to researchers astatine SkAI Data Services and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, who analyzed data from the OpenSky Network.

Swiss International Air Lines accidental their flights are spoofed astir each time implicit the Middle East.

Separately, Estonia and different Baltic nations person blamed Russia for disrupting signals successful their airspaces. In April, Finnair temporarily suspended flights to an Estonian airdrome aft turning backmost 2 flights due to the fact that of terrible GPS jamming.

The attacks present screen ample swaths of the globe acold from immoderate battlefield.

In summation to causing navigation confusion, spoofing tin trigger mendacious alerts that airplanes are excessively adjacent to the ground. But the attacks person not yet made flying unsafe due to the fact that pilots tin usage alternate navigation methods.

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