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Acquire or Build Infrastructure: Acquire jamming equipment

ID Name
T1583.001 Acquire Ground-station/ Ground segment
T1583.003 Acquire jamming equipment
T1583.004 Acquire Satellite
T1583.005 Rent ground segment as a service

Antennas, lasers, or other equipment able to jam a radio or visible-light frequency can be useful to prevent communication or an image acquisition. These instruments can be fixed on ground, mounted on vehicles like trucks, ships, aircraft, or also installed on board of satellites. [1] [2] [3]

ID: T1583.003
Sub-technique of:  T1583
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Tactic: Collection
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Platforms: Ground Segment
Version: 2.0
Created: 25 October 2022
Last Modified: 21 April 2023

Mitigations

This type of attack technique cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on the abuse of system features.

References

  1. ESA experts. (2022). Retrieved September 29, 2022.
  2. interestingengineering.com. (2020, April). U.S. Space Force's First Offensive Weapon Is a Satellite Jammer. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
  1. Space.com. (2022, April). How Russia's GPS satellite signal jamming works, and what we can do about it. Retrieved October 25, 2022.