7 days ago
Ship-Signal Spoofing Spreads to Russia's Pacific Kozmino Port
Exports of crude from the Kozmino oil terminal on Russia's Pacific coast have become harder to track in recent days, after ships' automated position signals began to suffer electronic interference.
The process, known as spoofing, sees signals sent between ships and the satellites used for global positioning systems swamped by false transmissions, which lead to vessels reporting themselves to be in impossible positions or moving at infeasible speeds.
