It looks like they are attacking the driver/firmware of the USB dongle--not anything in the OS. They are thus connecting to your laptop/computer without having to login or other attack vectors.
So--this would be OS-independent, and all are vulnerable if you use a wireless mouse.
Your mouse is probably assumed to be the logged in user. If you are logged into Linux with an unprivileged account, it probably couldn’t do much damage.
Was just asking because it mentioned console commands (if they had sight of the monitor.. Commands are a galaxy different between Win and Lin (and, my favorite, DOS ;^))
IoT is going to increase this problem exponentially!
How can I make money from this?