Saturation/Exhaustion of Spacecraft Resources: Receiver flooding

An attacker can try to flood the spacecraft receiver sending great amount of data, valid or not. Since the Ground Station notices the status of the receiver, the power of the transmitter should increase to unlock the receiver from the messages flood, rising the receiver's threshold and cutting out the malicious signal. [1]

ID: T2053.001
Sub-technique of:  T2053
Tactic: Impact
Platforms: Space Segment
Version: 2.0
Created: 25 August 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.

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