WLAN Sensing Vulnerabilities: Spoofing and Jamming Threats Identified
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📡✨ WLAN Sensing Vulnerabilities Exposed: Spoofing and Jamming Threats Identified. A recent study highlights the security risks associated with Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) under joint communication and sensing (JCAS), particularly focusing on target spoofing and deceptive jamming. Utilizing orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), researchers demonstrate how adversaries can exploit WLAN sensing to inject false targets and disrupt operations using simple software-defined radios, rather than complex hardware. The study includes comprehensive modeling and experiments that reveal how deceptive jammers can manipulate the range-Doppler map (RDM) by compromising signal integrity, posing significant threats to OFDM-based JCAS systems. Various jamming strategies are evaluated, emphasizing their complexity and detectability.
