It looks like a school bath smoke detector. A teenage hacker showed that it could be an audio forms

A couple Years ago, a curious hacker, a 16-year-old named Rainaldo Vasquez-Exagia, was in his high school in Portland in his laptop, and seeing what computer systems could be tied through Wi-Fi- “connecting” as a laboratory, because he puts it with “IPvide. Corporation “observed.

After a closer look and some of Google, Garcia realized that a company with this name was a Motorola subsidiary, and it seems that the devices he found at his school is something called Halo 3C, a “smart” smoke and a VAPE detection tool. “They look exactly like smoke detectors, but they have a complete set of features such as sensors and materials,” says Garcia.

While he reads more, he concluded that Halo 3C is beyond the detection of smoke and evaporation – including a separate feature for Vaping Thc in particular. It also has a microphone for listening to “aggression”, shooting bullets and keywords like someone who wants help, a feature that was immediately raised by Vasquez-Agosia.

Now, after months of reverse engineering and security testing, Vasquez-Exisia and another hacker he has partnered with the nickname “NYX”, one of those Halo 3C devices can be hacked-called “Snitch Puck”-and has complete control.

Rainaldo Vasquez-Excel and NYX in Las Vegas, NV on August 8, 2025.Photo: Ronda Churchill

At today’s DefCon Hacker conference, they intend to show that by abusing a few relatively simple security vulnerabilities, each hacker on the same network can kidnap a 3C aura to turn it into real -time audio forms, disable it, disable it, to make a fake warning or weapon weapons. Since then, Motorola said the operating system has been updating to deal with those security defects that automatically push the cloud -connected devices by Friday.

Many of the hackers’ tricks are shown in the video show below, which Vasquez-Excel and NYX have made of their Defconn presentation: