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Cyber threats posed through compromised drones contribute to sabotage in a smart city\u2019s airspace, can prove to be catastrophic to its operations, and can also cause fatalities. In this contribution, we propose a machine learning-based approach for detecting hijacking, GPS signal jamming and denial of service (DoS) attacks that can be carried out against a drone. A detailed machine learning-based classification of drone datasets for the DJI Phantom 4 model, compromising both normal and malicious signatures, is conducted, and results obtained yield advisory to foster futuristic opportunities to safeguard a drone system against such cyber threats.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fi14070205","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,30]],"date-time":"2022-06-30T20:53:02Z","timestamp":1656622382000},"page":"205","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":60,"title":["Securing the Smart City Airspace: Drone Cyber Attack Detection through Machine Learning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0557-1550","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zubair","family":"Baig","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Victoria 3216, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2450-4337","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Naeem","family":"Syed","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Victoria 3216, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3580-5960","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nazeeruddin","family":"Mohammad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cybersecurity Center, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Dhahran 34754, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2022, May 26). 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