Re: [time-nuts] Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon

[Clint Jay]

Didn't someone demonstrate this using some rather expensive but 'off the
shelf' Rohde & Schwarz lab gear a year or so ago?



On 12 August 2017 at 22:23, John Allen  wrote:

> FYI, John K1AE
>
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> attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
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> As if there were not enough problems in the world .
>
> Whitey  K1VV
>
> > Date: August 12, 2017 at 7:37 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Radio Officers, ] Ships fooled in GPS spoofing
> attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
> >
> > Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
> >
> > News from: New Scientis (article reported by R/O Luca Milone –
> IZ7GEG)
> >
> > https://www.newscientist.com/article/2143499-ships-fooled-
> in-gps-spoofing-attack-suggest-russian-cyberweapon/#.
> WY6zNfZq1VA.google_plusone_share https://www.newscientist.com/
> article/2143499-ships-fooled-in-gps-spoofing-attack-
> suggest-russian-cyberweapon/#.WY6zNfZq1VA.google_plusone_share
> >
> >
> > On date: 10 August 2017
> >
> > By David Hambling
> >
> >
> > Reports of satellite navigation problems in the Black Sea suggest
> that Russia may be testing a new system for spoofing GPS, New Scientist has
> learned. This could be the first hint of a new form of electronic warfare
> available to everyone from rogue nation states to petty criminals.
> >
> >
> > On 22 June, the US Maritime Administration filed a seemingly bland
> incident report. The master of a ship off the Russian port of Novorossiysk
> had discovered his GPS put him in the wrong spot – more than 32 kilometres
> inland, at Gelendzhik Airport.
> >
> >
> > After checking the navigation equipment was working properly, the
> captain contacted other nearby ships. Their AIS traces – signals from the
> automatic identification system used to track vessels – placed them all at
> the same airport. At least 20 ships were affected
> http://maritime-executive.com/editorials/mass-gps-spoofing-
> attack-in-black-sea .
> >
> >
> > While the incident is not yet confirmed, experts think this is the
> first documented use of GPS misdirection – https://www.marad.dot.gov/
> msci/alert/2017/2017-005a-gps-interference-black-sea/  a spoofing attack
> that has long been warned of but never been seen in the wild.
> >
> >
> > Until now, the biggest worry for GPS has been it can be jammed
> https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20202-gps-chaos-how-
> a-30-box-can-jam-your-life/  by masking the GPS satellite signal with
> noise. While this can cause chaos, it is also easy to detect. GPS receivers
> sound an alarm when they lose the signal due to jamming. Spoofing is more
> insidious: a false signal from a ground station simply confuses a satellite
> receiver. “Jamming just causes the receiver to die, spoofing causes the
> receiver to lie,” says consultant David Last
> http://www.professordavidlast.co.uk/ , former president of the UK’s Royal
> Institute of Navigation.
> >
> >
> > Todd Humphreys http://www.ae.utexas.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/
> humphreys , of the University of Texas at Austin, has been warning of the
> coming danger of GPS spoofing for many years. In 2013, he showed how a
> superyacht with state-of-the-art navigation could be lured off-course by
> GPS spoofing. “The receiver’s behaviour in the Black Sea incident was much
> like during the controlled attacks http://onlinelibrary.wiley.
> com/doi/10.1002/navi.183/full  my team conducted,” says Humphreys.
> >
> >
> > Humphreys thinks this is Russia experimenting with a new form of
> electronic warfare. Over the past year, GPS spoofing has been causing chaos
> for the receivers on phone apps in central Moscow to misbehave
> https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/the-kremlin-eats-gps-
> for-breakfast-55823 . The scale of the problem did not become apparent
> until people began trying to play Pokemon Go. The fake signal, which seems
> to centre on the Kremlin, relocates anyone nearby to Vnukovo Airport
> http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2017/01/bizarre-gps-
> spoofing-means-drivers-near-kremlin-always-airport/ , 32 km away. This is
> probably for defensive reasons; many NATO guided bombs, missiles and drones
> rely on GPS navigation, and successful spoofing would make it impossible
> for them to hit their targets.
> >
> >
> > But now the geolocation interference is being used far away from the
> Kremlin. Some worry that this means that spoofing is getting easier. GPS
> spoofing previously required considerable technical expertise. Humphreys
> had to build his first spoofer from scratch in 2008, but notes that it can
> now be done with commercial hardware and software downloaded from the
> Internet.
> >
> >
> > Nor does it require much power. Satellite signals are very 

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