CYVIATION INTELLIGENCE
This Week in Aviation Cyber - Issue #7
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Researchers Show How a Cheap Radio Setup Can Talk Directly to a Commercial Aircraft's Digital Air Traffic Link
A peer-reviewed paper at USENIX Security '26 found that CPDLC, the digital system used to send instructions between controllers and aircraft, carries no built-in authentication or encryption.
A Sixty-Second Physical Connection Could Let an Implant Take Over a 737's Flight Instructions
University researchers built a hardware device that hijacks the data bus linking a Boeing 737's flight-management computer to its cockpit displays.
An Explosive-Laden Drone Near a Cargo Jet Signals a New Category of Airport Threat
A drone carrying an explosive device was found meters from a Ukrainian cargo aircraft at a German airport, exposing gaps in the sensor networks meant to detect exactly this kind of intrusion.
UAE's National Cyber Defenses Intercept a Coordinated Push Against Aviation and Energy Systems
The UAE Cybersecurity Council says it stopped a multi-vector attack on aviation, energy, and education organizations before attackers reached their objectives.
A Wi-Fi Prank at 35,000 Feet Exposes a Real Gap in Aircraft Cabin Security
A rogue wireless network broadcast aboard a Delta flight leaving Las Vegas shows how easily cabin Wi-Fi trust can be exploited, even when the aircraft itself is never touched.
CYVIATION INTELLIGENCE
This Week in Aviation Cyber - Issue #6
A Weapon That Clears Security
CYVIATION examines how a fifty-dollar phone carried through airport security without a second glance was used to compromise an airline-issued Electronic Flight Bag, take down a cabin network, and inte
One Facility, Two Hours, Nine States: What the Minneapolis ARTCC Outage Reveals About Aviation's Resilience Assumptions
An equipment failure at a single FAA en route center knocked out radar and voice communications across a nine-state region for two hours, exposing a structural concentration point that redundancy was
EU Extends Mandatory Incident Reporting to Drones, U-space, and Information Security Occurrences
A newly published EU implementing regulation broadens the list of civil aviation occurrences that must be formally reported to include uncrewed aircraft operations, U-space airspace events, and Part-I