A Practical GPS Location Spoofing Attack in Road Navigation Scenario

Kexiong Curtis Zeng, Yuanchao Shu, Shinan Liu, Yanzhi Dou, Yaling Yang

Abstract: High value of GPS location information and easy availability of portable GPS signal spoofing devices incentivize attackers to launch GPS spoofing attacks against location-based applications. In this paper, we propose an attack model in road navigation scenario, and develop a complete framework to analyze, simulate and evaluate the spoofing attacks under practical constraints. To launch an attack, the framework first constructs a road network, and then searches for an attack route that smoothly diverts a victim without his awareness. In extensive data-driven simulations in College Point, New York City, we managed to navigate a victim to locations 1km away from his original destination.