Road Traffic Poisoning of Navigation Apps: Threats and Countermeasures
arXiv:2002.05051v314 citations
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This addresses security vulnerabilities in navigation apps that could impact daily users, presenting a novel threat scenario.
The paper tackles the problem of road traffic poisoning attacks on navigation apps, enabled by new technologies, and proposes innovative countermeasures to address the associated threats.
Assisted-navigation applications have a relevant impact on our daily life. However, technological progress in virtualization technologies and Software-Defined Radios recently enabled new attack vectors, namely, road traffic poisoning. These attacks open up several dreadful scenarios, which are addressed in this contribution by identifying the associated challenges and proposing innovative countermeasures.