The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has revealed that seven key airports in the country were hit by GPS spoofing cyber attacks in November 2025, Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram MohanNaidu said. The airports affected are the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, and those in Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai and Amritsar.
Nature of the attack
GPS spoofing, which consists of sending fake satellite signals to navigation receivers and makes the aircraft systems believe that it is at a different location and altitude. A number of flights to Runway 10 at the Delhi airport reported being misled by false GPS signals in the midst of GPS approach routines. A number of aircraft suffered navigation systems falsely displaying their locations as far as 60 nautical miles from their actual position, causing some to divert to nearby cities.
While highlighting the gravity of these attacks, Minister Naidu said, that “no incidents of flight operations being interfered or flights being delayed on account of GP
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