GPS Spoofing at Sea: How False Signals Hijack Ship Navigation | Maritime Security Podcast

DeepDraft Conversations · Mar 14, 2026 · 21m

Are your ship's electronic charts telling the truth? Tune in to this essential episode for marine professionals as we uncover the stealthy and growing threat of GPS spoofing.Drawing on authoritative insights from Capt. Raghu Sharma’s article in The DeepDraft, we break down how attackers use high-end laptops and software-defined radios (SDR) to broadcast fake satellite signals and secretly alter a ship’s coordinates. Unlike GPS jamming, which simply blocks signals with noise, spoofing is a highly deceptive attack that triggers no equipment alarms, leaving navigators completely unaware that…