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Wireless attacks on aircraft landing systems: demo

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Harshad Sathaye,

Domien Schepers,

Aanjhan Ranganathan,

Guevara NoubirAuthors Info & Claims

WiSec '19: Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

Pages 295 - 297

https://doi.org/10.1145/3317549.3326298

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Modern aircraft heavily rely on several wireless technologies for communications, control, and navigation. In this work, we demonstrate the vulnerability of aircraft instrument landing systems to wireless attacks. We show that it is possible to fully and in finegrain control the course deviation indicator, as displayed by the ILS receiver, in real-time, and demonstrate it on aviation-grade ILS receivers. We develop a tightly-controlled closed-loop ILS spoofer that autonomously adjusts the adversary's transmitted signals based on the aircraft's GPS location to cause an undetected off-runway landing. We demonstrate the integrated attack on an FAA certified flight-simulator (X-Plane)'s AI-based auto-land feature and show success rate with offset touchdowns of 18 meters to over 50 meters.

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