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New Type Of GPS Spoofing Attack In China Creates “Crop Circles” Of False Location Data

A new type of GPS spoofing technology, which may belong to the Chinese government, appears to have been impacting shipping in and around China’s Port of Shanghai for more than a year. Unlike previous examples of spoofing attacks, which have typically caused GPS receivers in a certain area to show their locations as being at a limited number of fixed false positions, the incidents in Shanghai caused the transponders on multiple ships at once to show various erroneous positions that formed odd ring-like patterns that some experts have dubbed “crop circles.”