#gps-jamming

#gps-jamming

As The Register has previously reported, attackers who wish to jam GPS broadcast a radio signal that can drown out the weak beams that come down from navigation satellites. Spoofing a signal sees attackers transmit inaccurate location information so receivers can't calculate their actual position. Either technique means pilots can't rely on satellite navigation - doing so could be catastrophic - and must instead find their way using other means.

Italy is considering keeping state flights secret after the satellite signal of the aircraft carrying the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, was allegedly jammed by Russia, Italian defence ministry sources said. Von der Leyen, a fierce critic of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and Moscow's war in Ukraine, was flying to Bulgaria on Sunday when her charter plane lost satellite navigation aids, delaying its arrival in Plovdiv, and reportedly forcing it to circle an airport for an hour.

Russian forces shelled Bilozerka in Ukraine's Kherson region, killing a 73-year-old man, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote in a post on Telegram on Monday. A Russian drone attack on the city of Horodnia injured two people, including a 14-year-old girl, the governor of the Chernihiv region, Viacheslav Chaus, said. Russian forces intensively attacked Ukraine's Sumy region, injuring seven people and damaging dozens of homes, Sumy Governor Oleh Hryhorov said.