India, Dec. 12 -- With nearly 2,000 cases of cyber-attacks or spoofing of aircraft's GPS coming to light, the Government has acknowledged the seriousness of the issue regarding the threat posed to safe flying.
In recent times, there have been instances of GPS spoofing and interference incidents at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Amritsar, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai airports. Giving details of these incidents on Thursday in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol said a total of 1,951 issues of interference with aircraft's GPS system have been reported during the two years since November 2023.
He said in a written reply that GPS interference reporting started after the publication of the Directorate General of Civ...