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OpsGroup: GPS Spoofing Falsely Pointing to Tel Aviv

GPS spoofing is continuing to show aircraft over Tel Aviv

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By Kerry Lynch • Editor, AIN monthly magazine

October 24, 2023

OpsGroup is sounding the alarm once again on instances of GPS spoofing, this time in various locations over the eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, and on approach to Amman, Jordan. In these cases, the aircraft have shown a false position of being over Ben Gurion International Airport (LLBG) in Tel Aviv even though they were as far as 212 nm away from the area.

The reports of GPS spoofing—under which aircraft receive false GPS positioning information—follow just weeks after the operations and security specialist warned of fake GPS signals reported from nearly two dozen aircraft flying along the Airway UM688 in Iraq along the Iranian border. In many of those cases, aircraft lost navigational capabilities and ended up miles from their intended route.

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