An Indian disaster-relief flight delivering aid is the latest air-traffic incident, as attacks increase in the Middle East and Myanmar and along the India-Pakistan border.
April 17, 2025 By Robert Lemos
Spoofing attacks on the global positioning system (GPS) continue to widely impact air and sea transportation in 2025, following a significant surge during the summer of 2024, when airline flights suffered frequent jamming in conflict zones, especially in Eastern Europe and Russia, the Middle East, and most recently Myanmar and Southeast Asia.
Last week, the Indian military revealed that flights bringing humanitarian aid to Myanamar in the wake of a strong March 28 earthquake had encountered GPS spoofing and had to use backup systems to navigate. A year ago, the number of flights affected by GPS spoofing peaked at more than 1,500 per day in the Middle East alone and to more than 2,000 worldwide. Since then, GPS spoofing attacks have declined significantly, only to pick up at the end of last year and into 2025.
