A tech expert has revealed that his firm may have witnessed an 'exotic new' hack that tricked Iranian missiles into plunging into the Mediterranean Sea during the Iran-Israel war.
The war between Iran and Israel, which began in mid-June following a series of Israeli strikes on military, nuclear and civilian positions, saw both nations fire salvos of missiles and drones at each other.
Like many missile systems found across the world, Iranian missiles rely on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data to find their way to their targets.
Sean Gorman, the co-founder and CEO of Zephyr.xys, a tech firm that is working to improve location services on mobile phones, believes that he and his team witnessed a new defensive tactic that involved tricking missiles into flying against their programming.
Spoofing normally works by sending a powerful radio signal that is stronger than GNSS signals from satellites, forcing a device to listen to the fake information.
