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 <j...@pcsupportsolutions.com> wrote: > FYI, John K1AE > > -----Original Message----- > From: YCCC [mailto:yccc-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of ROBERT > DOHERTY > Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2017 9:26 AM > To: YCCC Reflector > Subject: [YCCC] Fwd: Re: [Radio Officers, &c] Ships fooled in GPS spoofing > attack suggest Russian cyberweapon > > As if there were not enough problems in the world ..... > > Whitey K1VV > > > Date: August 12, 2017 at 7:37 AM > > Subject: Re: [Radio Officers, &c] 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 weak – > about 20 watts from 20,000 miles away – so a one-watt transmitter on a > hilltop, plane or drone is enough to spoof everything out to the horizon. > > > > > > If the hardware and software are becoming more accessible, nation > states soon won’t be the only ones using the technology. This is within the > scope of any competent hacker http://www.comsoc.org/ctn/ > lost-space-how-secure-future-mobile-positioning . There have not yet been > any authenticated reports of criminal spoofing, but it should not be > difficult for criminals to use it to divert a driverless vehicle > https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142059-sneaky- > attacks-trick-ais-into-seeing-or-hearing-whats-not-there/ or drone > delivery, or to hijack an autonomous ship. Spoofing will give everyone > affected the same location, so a hijacker would just need a short-ranged > system to affect one vehicle. > > > > > > But Humphreys believes that spoofing by a state operator is the more > serious threat. “It affects safety-of-life operations over a large area,” > he says. “In congested waters with poor weather, such as the English > Channel, it would likely cause great confusion, and probably collisions.” > > > > > > Last says that the Black Sea incident suggests a new device capable > of causing widespread disruption, for example, if used in the ongoing > dispute with Ukraine. “My gut feeling is that this is a test of a system > which will be used in anger at some other time.” > > > > > > 73’s > > webmaster > _______________________________________________ > YCCC Reflector mailto:y...@contesting.com > Yankee Clipper Contest Club http://www.yccc.org > Reflector Info: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/yccc > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Clint. *No trees were harmed in the sending of this mail. 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