[seniorThrowaway]

possibly but the article mentions devices from Amazon that became popular during the pandemic, so I'm thinking it's those physical mouse cradle / movers. Probably low performers which got management's attention and led them to start doing screen caps and seeing the mouse moving but no work being done. I wonder how many of these are 2nd or 3rd jobs for people, I know someone personally who did that with Wells.

[Rinzler89]

Or maybe they scanned the USB vendor ID's for those particular keystroke/mouse simulators off Amazon. Since usually on corporate machines you're not allowed to install software not whitelisted by IT without admin rights.

[seniorThrowaway]

Good point. If that's what they did the employees should have taken the super low tech route, set your optical mouse on an analog clock.