Yet I’m now learning that the world may not be rid of MouseJack yet.Įarlier this week, security researcher Marcus Mengs revealed that Logitech’s wireless Unifying dongles are actually vulnerable to a variety of newly discovered hacks as well, primarily ones that are paired with presentation clickers, or during a brief window of opportunity when you’re pairing a new mouse or keyboard to the dongle. I’d given the issue attention in a major technology news publication, lots of people were reading about it, and Logitech had already issued a patch. It was the kind of hack I’d laugh at in a terrible hacker movie - the kind that seems too convenient* to actually exist.īut when I wrote about the so-called “MouseJack” hack in 2016, I figured that was that. Practically any Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard would be vulnerable to this issue, they said. He could have wiped my hard drive, installed malware, or worse, much as if he’d had physical access to my PC. All he had to do was sniff out my Logitech wireless mouse’s tiny USB receiver, fire off a few lines of code, and start typing things that appeared on my screen. Three and a half years ago, a security researcher broke into my laptop without ever needing to touch it.
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