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Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard activity simulation (www.tomshardware.com)
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[โ€“] Cornelius_Wangenheim 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

USB devices have a hard coded vendor identifier and product identifier built into them that are issued from a central authority. The ones I saw were easily identifiable as not legitimate mice.

[โ€“] TheEighthDoctor 0 points 6 months ago

I know but you can change it, I think, at least in the bad usb devices that we use for red team