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Autores principales: Yu, Aaron, Kolotylo, Iuliia, Hashim, Hashim A., Eltoukhy, A. E. E.
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Publicado: 2025
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author Yu, Aaron
Kolotylo, Iuliia
Hashim, Hashim A.
Eltoukhy, A. E. E.
author_facet Yu, Aaron
Kolotylo, Iuliia
Hashim, Hashim A.
Eltoukhy, A. E. E.
contents Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a pivotal role in modern autonomous air mobility, and the reliability of UAV avionics systems is critical to ensuring mission success, sustainability practices, and public safety. The success of UAV missions depends on effectively mitigating various aspects of electronic warfare, including non-destructive and destructive cyberattacks, transponder vulnerabilities, and jamming threats, while rigorously implementing countermeasures and defensive aids. This paper provides a comprehensive review of UAV cyberattacks, countermeasures, and defensive strategies. It explores UAV-to-UAV coordination attacks and their associated features, such as dispatch system attacks, Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) attacks, Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS)-induced collisions, and TCAS attacks. Additionally, the paper examines UAV-to-command center coordination attacks, as well as UAV functionality attacks. The review also covers various countermeasures and defensive aids designed for UAVs. Lastly, a comparison of common cyberattacks and countermeasure approaches is conducted, along with a discussion of future trends in the field. Keywords: Electronic warfare, UAVs, Avionics Systems, cyberattacks, coordination attacks, functionality attacks, countermeasure, defensive-aids.
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spellingShingle Electronic Warfare Cyberattacks, Countermeasures and Modern Defensive Strategies of UAV Avionics: A Survey
Yu, Aaron
Kolotylo, Iuliia
Hashim, Hashim A.
Eltoukhy, A. E. E.
Cryptography and Security
Signal Processing
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a pivotal role in modern autonomous air mobility, and the reliability of UAV avionics systems is critical to ensuring mission success, sustainability practices, and public safety. The success of UAV missions depends on effectively mitigating various aspects of electronic warfare, including non-destructive and destructive cyberattacks, transponder vulnerabilities, and jamming threats, while rigorously implementing countermeasures and defensive aids. This paper provides a comprehensive review of UAV cyberattacks, countermeasures, and defensive strategies. It explores UAV-to-UAV coordination attacks and their associated features, such as dispatch system attacks, Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) attacks, Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS)-induced collisions, and TCAS attacks. Additionally, the paper examines UAV-to-command center coordination attacks, as well as UAV functionality attacks. The review also covers various countermeasures and defensive aids designed for UAVs. Lastly, a comparison of common cyberattacks and countermeasure approaches is conducted, along with a discussion of future trends in the field. Keywords: Electronic warfare, UAVs, Avionics Systems, cyberattacks, coordination attacks, functionality attacks, countermeasure, defensive-aids.
title Electronic Warfare Cyberattacks, Countermeasures and Modern Defensive Strategies of UAV Avionics: A Survey
topic Cryptography and Security
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07358