Between December 2023 and early February 2024, there was a sharp drop of approximately 90% in the number of Russia-hosted computers providing ADS-B aircraft data to FlightAware and possibly other services, dropping from 3,503 active sites in July 2023 to only 316 sites by February 2, 2024. This decline follows a prior sharp rise earlier in 2023. The change is likely linked to spoofing operations involving false receivers that insert bogus aircraft data. This phenomenon suggests a disruption or manipulation attempt in the open-source aviation tracking data from Russia. Analysts consider it indicative of cyber or information warfare tactics involving fake or compromised ADS-B data feeds.

Between December 2023 and early February 2024, there was a sharp drop of approximately 90% in the number of Russia-hosted computers providing ADS-B aircraft data to FlightAware and possibly other services, dropping from 3,503 active sites in July 2023 to only 316 sites by February 2, 2024. This decline follows a prior sharp rise earlier in 2023. The change is likely linked to spoofing operations involving false receivers that insert bogus aircraft data. This phenomenon suggests a disruption or manipulation attempt in the open-source aviation tracking data from Russia. Analysts consider it indicative of cyber or information warfare tactics involving fake or compromised ADS-B data feeds.