A guide to spoofing spotting
- Revealed: red flags to watch out for in vessel positions and AIS data
- Some forms of spoofing are harder to detect, but many vessels still employ easy to recognise methods
- Third-party interference is an emerging issue, but there are ways to distinguish this from other forms of manipulation of navigational data
The methods involved in manipulating location information are constantly evolving and becoming more difficult to track, but many spoofing events can still be identified if you know what to look for