Can your mouse spy on you? Research shows a high-sensitivity gaming mouse can pick up your speech with a malicious AI-driven trick

• A new exploit called 'Mic-E-Mouse' has been revealed
• It picks up acoustic vibrations in a desk via the high-sensitivity sensor in a gaming mouse
• Those vibrations are put through signal processing, and AI is then used to make the results largely audible

Is your mouse spying on you? No, it almost certainly isn't, but the peripheral could feasibly be corrupted to perform surveillance duties on an unsuspecting PC gamer based on the findings of a new research paper.

TweakTown spotted a paper (authored by researchers from the University of California) which shows how some of the best gaming mice out there can be compromised via malware that uses signal processing and AI called 'Mic-E-Mouse' (because it gives the mouse a pair of big ears, essentially).

Why is this about gaming mice? Because these are the types of mice that these days have staggeringly high levels ...