There has been a big increase in the number of GPS spoofing and jamming attacks aimed at interfering with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data, which is standard on all international airliners, according to a United Nations aviation agency.
Stanford University, which keeps a database of incidents, reported that 25 planes were affected by GPS jamming over Utah on the night of Oct. 29.
On Oct. 25, GPS jamming off the west coast of Ireland lasted for 5 hours and six minutes, and affected 87 planes, according to the database.
Russia and North Korea are two of the bad actors responsible for the uptick, the UN agency stated in an early October report….