ECE 315 · ADS-B Spoofing

GROUND TRUTH The real sky · connecting to ADS-B…

CONTROLLER'S SCREEN What ATC trusts — fakes look identical here

ATTACKER'S TAP You are the man-in-the-middle — tamper here

You are the man-in-the-middle. The left maps show the real sky (top) and the controller's screen (bottom). Tamper with the feed on the right — hide planes, blank whole sectors, or invent fakes — and watch the controller's screen drift from reality while showing no sign anything is wrong.

📡 Live Feed ›

Ground truth is live ADS-B from the first open aggregator that answers (airplanes.live, adsb.lol, …). If none is reachable the demo switches to SIM — synthetic traffic, identical attacks — and returns to LIVE automatically when a feed comes back. Positions are dead-reckoned between refreshes.

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▦ Blank Sectors ›

Suppress every aircraft inside a circle — a whole area goes dark on the controller's screen.

Lat

Lon

Radius km

Label

Hide aircraft via protection sector

Blanks a 10° wedge from USAFA out through the selected aircraft — drawn on your tap.

No blank zones.

✖ Remove Aircraft ›

Target one real track by ICAO24 hex and erase it from the controller's screen only.

Pick a live aircraft

No aircraft suppressed.

⊕ Inject Swarm ›

Spawn fake tracks that exist only on the feed — orbit a point or fly a line formation.

Orbit Line

Lat

Lon

Radius km

Count

Speed kt

Alt ft

Callsign prefix

No swarms injected.

☠ Deception Package ›

One coordinated play: blank the real traffic near USAFA, then inject a fake 8-ship raid inbound from the northwest — pulling attention off the real picture.