Spoofing a GPS receiver is worse than jamming it because the victim never knows — the screen stays calm and confident while feeding a pilot a runway that sits somewhere else entirely

Spoofing a GPS receiver is worse than jamming it because the victim never knows — the screen stays calm and confident while feeding a pilot a runway that sits somewhere else entirely

In September 2017, twenty ships near Novorossiysk watched their GPS receivers calmly place them at an airport 25 miles inland. No warning lights, no dropped signals — just a coherent lie broadcast on the correct frequency. Spoofing is the attack that hides itself, and modern aviation is only beginning to grapple with what it means when the instrument no longer knows it is being deceived.