{"id":1787245,"date":"2019-04-23T19:08:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787245"},"modified":"2019-04-23T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T23:08:18","slug":"the-russians-are-spoofing-the-russians-are-spoofing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/04\/the-russians-are-spoofing-the-russians-are-spoofing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russians Are Spoofing! The Russians Are Spoofing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian authorities appear to be systematically messing with GPS and other GNSS signals in multiple locations, a new report<\/a> from the Center for Advanced Defense Studies concludes (CBS News<\/a>, Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em>, Moscow Times<\/a><\/em>, Wired<\/em><\/a>). The tactic is called GPS spoofing<\/strong>: broadcasting a false GPS\/GNSS signal in a specific location to fool GPS\/GNSS receivers and render them unreliable or unusable. The incidents appear to correlate with sensitive Russian facilities, active combat zones, and the travel itinerary of one Vladimir V. Putin. In one case<\/a>, while Putin was opening a bridge between Russia and Crimea, nearby ships were suddenly informed by their GPS\/GNSS receivers that they were dozens of kilometres away from their actual position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian authorities appear to be systematically messing with GPS and other GNSS signals in multiple locations, a new report from the Center for Advanced Defense Studies concludes (CBS News, Foreign Policy, Moscow Times, Wired). The… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[1333,585,1145],"class_list":["post-1787245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-gps","tag-gps-spoofing","tag-russia","tag-security","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788156,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/12\/gps-is-easy-to-disrupt-and-the-consequences-of-disruption-are-serious\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787245,"position":0},"title":"GPS Is Easy to Disrupt, and the Consequences of Disruption Are Serious","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 December 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"In an article in the December 2019 issue of\u00a0Scientific American, now available online, Paul Tullis looks at the problem of GPS hacking, or spoofing\u2014how easy it is to do, how vulnerable GPS is to it, and the consequences we\u2019d face if GPS was disrupted on a broad level. 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A report submitted by the Baltic states to ICAO found that 123,000 flights were disrupted by GPS jamming in the first four months of 2025; 27.4 percent of flights were disrupted in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "GPS"","block_context":{"text":"GPS","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/gps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1788065,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/a-gps-spoofing-mystery-in-shanghai\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787245,"position":3},"title":"A GPS Spoofing Mystery in Shanghai","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 November 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Someone is spoofing GPS signals in Shanghai, and we\u2019re not entirely sure why they\u2019re doing it, or how. One ostensibly bizarre theory: sand thieves trying to obfuscate illegal dredging by zonking out the GPS received by other ships\u2019 AIS transponders. 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