Vessel hit by GPS spoofing attack near Putin's visit at Kerch Strait Bridge in Crimea

Summary:

In September 2019, ships docked at Kerch Port received incorrect positional information from the Simferopol Airport in Crimea, which is over 200 kilometres distant. During that time, the Russian President and Prime Minister visited Kerch for a single day on September 15, 2016, to assess progress on the Kerch Bridge. This was the first GNSS spoofing incident in the vicinity of Kerch, and the only one in 2016. GNSS spoofing events detected in Russia are likely designed to deceive GNSS receivers on commercial drones to activate firmware-level geofence locks that prevent these drones from flying in restricted airspace such as an airport.

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