GPS Spoofing, A New Type Of Attack Has Been Detected

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A worrying new GPS Spoofing method has been detected being used in Shanghai, China and it has everyone worried. Nobody knows who is behind the attacks but the suspicion is the technology is so sophisticated that it must be state sponsored.

The first signs of an issue began when ship crews, manoeuvring their vessels in the congested waterways of Shanghai port observed other ship traffic, supposedly ahead of them in the shipping lane, disappearing from their navigation displays only to reappear a minute or so later apparently tied up at the dockside.

Now new research has revealed that thousands of vessels have been victim of this new type of spoofing and the most worrying aspect is experts have no idea how it is being done. It's one thing to jam a GPS signal, but spoofing a signal in this way is much more difficult.

Source: technologyreview.com

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Steveee · Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 9:37 am Post subject: Needs encryption

This is why the commercial part of the Galileo system is encrypted.
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mooi1uk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Posts: 1

So what's the point of it then, why is it worrying?

DeLorean · Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 6:16 pm Post subject:

"disappearing from their navigation displays only to reappear a minute or so later apparently tied up at the dockside."
I guess they've never used Flightradar24 Laughing

Sounds like simple jamming to me... blurting a high-powered signal over the L1 & L2 frequencies.
Many believe it's the Chinese government behind the spoof and it's been going on for a year... sounds logical to spoof your own ports Laughing

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michaeldarling · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2005 Posts: 10

Watching MarineTraffic for Shanghai port is already crazy enough without added spoofing.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-12.0/centery:25.0/zoom:4

rtj70 · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 18, 2005 Posts: 144

But this article is nothing to do with GPS/GLONASS/Baidou/Galileo spoofing. If spoofed ships appear on a screen then that data is coming from somewhere for sure but not a GPS type system. All GPS systems allow is to calculate your own position.

I thought this site was better informed.

This is more like someone spoofing aircraft locations on FlightRadar24 that do not exist - now that could be spoofed.

MaFt · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:48 pm Post subject:

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rtj70 · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 18, 2005 Posts: 144

I think it is more likely the ship is reporting the wrong location rather than it being because GPS is spoofed. Remember the location is calculated from the time sent from dozens of satellites (not just GPS but also GLONASS, Baidou and now Galileo).

MaFt · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 5:50 pm Post subject:

rtj70 · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 18, 2005 Posts: 144

I am saying that the spoofing could be because another source is sending the erroneous locations for ships, i.e. the global positioning system is not spoofed but the data being sent between ships is.

If you compare to how FlightRadar24 works, I could have a receiver getting the positions of aircraft and then instead of relaying that data I have modified the software to report a false position.

MaFt · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 7:04 pm Post subject:

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