Commercial Flights Are Experiencing ‘Unthinkable’ GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do::New “spoofing” attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is “highly significant” for airline safety.
TL:DR: Israel and Iran are the source of the spoofing.
Edited*
Wow. The state of Israel is really piling on the reasons to hate it these days.
It was doing this for decades but Western countries only start hearing about it.
Social media have prevailed over classic media, and this time they have proven to be harder to steer.
And Iran, according to the article
Israel Iran and Russia be like![Israel Iran and Russia be like](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d3b5a1db-4e6b-47d5-979b-167fbe521bf0.jpeg)
Lemmy is starting to feel like Discord with people dropping lazy images like this in every damn thread.
And Russia was doing it just a few years ago, too.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/vladimir-putin/russia-spoofing-gps-vast-scale-stop-drones-approaching-putin-report-n987376#
The article says the spoofing was first recorded in September from Iran, then Israel started doing some after the October Hammas attacks