A screenshot from Israeli maritime cybersecurity firm Cydome's system, of an example of a GPS spoofing incident involving a ship in an undisclosed location on Jan. 7, 2024. Courtesy of Cydome

There has been a big increase in the number of Global Positioning System (GPS) spoofing or jamming attacks, aimed at messing with the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) data, which is standard on all international shipping.

Jeroen Pijpker, from NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, told The Epoch Times they had recorded 400 GPS spoofing and jamming incidents in their database—25 percent of which related to actual vessels—but he believed it was the “tip of the iceberg.”

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