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The GNSS spoofing attack, for example, is one of the most widespread in this domain and is used to manipulate positioning and timing data by transmitting counterfeit signals. Thus, in this study, we propose a method for analyzing and detecting anomalies in RINEX observation data that is associated with spoofing attacks. The proposed method is based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks and focuses on the observation parameters defined by the RINEX standard, which are computed in the Measurements block and subsequently used in the Navigation block of a GNSS receiver architecture. Attack detection involves processing GNSS observation codes and learning the temporal dependencies necessary to identify anomalies associated with GNSS signal spoofing. During the testing phase, the proposed method was applied to GNSS observation codes affected by spoofing, using an LSTM-based reconstruction approach. 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