Realization and countermeasures for current location spoofing attacks

Abstract

Recently, many retailers have rapidly increased cashless services. Customer guidance technology by providing advertisements and premiums linked with location information is drawing attention in cashless services using smartphones. While such technology is highly convenient, incidents such as the exploitation of premium points by disguising location information have occurred. It has become a major issue that shakes the reliability of cashless services and, in turn, affects the trust of the advanced information society that involves future financial services. In particular, the point acquisition service by visiting retail stores using smartphones has emerged as a real problem, with reports of cases of exploiting points by falsifying the location information of users who hold smartphones. This research will confirm the current location information spoofing attack method using smartphones for specific services and propose countermeasures.