{"id":87034,"date":"2024-07-03T18:55:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/03\/an-israeli-air-base-is-a-source-of-gps-spoofing-attacks-researchers-say\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:55:12","slug":"an-israeli-air-base-is-a-source-of-gps-spoofing-attacks-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/03\/an-israeli-air-base-is-a-source-of-gps-spoofing-attacks-researchers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"An Israeli air base is a source of GPS \u2018spoofing\u2019 attacks, researchers say."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/03\/reader-center\/03mideast-crisis-israel-gps\/03mideast-crisis-israel-gps-facebookJumbo.png?resize=1050,551&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"An Israeli air base is a source of GPS \u2018spoofing\u2019 attacks, researchers say.\" title=\"An Israeli air base is a source of GPS \u2018spoofing\u2019 attacks, researchers say.\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have identified an Israeli air base as a key source of GPS attacks that have disrupted civilian airline navigation in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The attacks, known as spoofing, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/07\/02\/world\/gps-threats.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">send out manipulated GPS signals<\/a> that make airplane instruments misread their location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The researchers, Todd Humphreys and Zach Clements, said they are \u201chighly confident\u201d that the spoofing attacks originated from Ein Shemer Airfield in northern Israel. The Israeli military declined to comment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The researchers used data that was emitted by the spoofer and picked up by satellites in low-Earth orbit to determine its location. They then confirmed their calculations using data they collected on the ground in Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Spoofing, along with GPS jamming, has sharply risen over the last three years, particularly near war zones in Ukraine and Gaza, where militaries interfere with navigation signals to thwart missile and drone attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Middle East has emerged as a spoofing hot spot.\u00a0The University of Texas researchers did not say how many spoofing attacks they had linked to the military base, but a separate analysis estimated that more than 50,000 flights have been spoofed in the region this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The attacks have made pilots think that they were above airports in Beirut or Cairo when they were not, according to researchers at SkAI Data Services and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/spoofing.skai-data-services.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">who analyzed data<\/a> from the OpenSky Network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Swiss International Air Lines say their flights are spoofed almost every day over the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Separately, Estonia and other Baltic nations have blamed Russia for disrupting signals in their airspaces. In April, Finnair temporarily suspended flights to an Estonian airport after turning back two flights because of severe GPS jamming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The attacks now cover large swaths of the globe far from any battlefield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In addition to causing navigation confusion, spoofing can trigger false alerts that airplanes are too close to the ground. But the attacks have not yet made flying dangerous because pilots can use alternative navigation methods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cLosing GPS is not going to cause airplanes to fall out of the sky,\u201d said Jeremy Benington, vice president of Spirent Communications, which provides testing for global navigation systems. \u201cBut I also don\u2019t want to deny the fact that we are removing layers of safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/03\/world\/europe\/an-israeli-air-base-is-a-source-of-gps-spoofing-attacks-researchers-say.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have identified an Israeli air base as a key source of GPS attacks that have disrupted civilian airline navigation in the Middle East. The attacks, known as spoofing, send out manipulated GPS signals that make airplane instruments misread their location. The researchers, Todd Humphreys and Zach Clements, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/03\/reader-center\/03mideast-crisis-israel-gps\/03mideast-crisis-israel-gps-facebookJumbo.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[721,1179,722,3845,1178,1075,5378,75742],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87036,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87034\/revisions\/87036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}