A pair of Years ago, a curious, the then-16-year-old hacker named Renaldo Waskes-Garsia was on its laptop at its Portland-Aria High School, seeing that the computer system could connect through Wi-Fi-“Use the school network as a laboratory,
After a close look and some Gogling, Garcia came to know that a company by that name was a subsidiary of Motorola, and the equipment found in her school seemed something that was called Hello 3C, a “smart” smoke and vep detection gadget. “They look like smoke detectors, but they have a complete bunch of facilities like sensors and accessories,” Garcia says.
As he read more, he was motivated to find out that Halo 3C is beyond detecting smoke and vapor – especially including a different feature for thy vapping. It also has a microphone to listen to “aggression,” gunshots, and keywords such as a person is calling for help, a feature that raises the concerns of excessive infiltration monitoring of Vaske’s-garsia immediately.
Now, after months of reverse engineering and safety testing, they have participated with Vaske’s-Garsia and a fellow hacker, which goes by the pseudonym name “NYX”, showing that it is possible to hack one of those Halo 3C gadgets-which they have taken to call from the nickname “Snich Puts”-and take full control of it.
On August 8, 2025, Las Vegas, Renaldo Waskes-Garsia and NYX in NV.Photograph: Ronda Churchill
Today at the Dafcon Hacker Conference, they are planning to show that by exploiting some relatively simple security weaknesses, any hacker on the same network may have kidnapped a Hello 3C to convert it into real -time audio iwsdroping bug, disabled its identity or even alert, or even so much that it has disabled, or even the proclaiming capacity, disable Audio-audio-audio-audio-audio-audio-audio-audio-audio-motorola said that it has developed a firmware update to address the safety flaws that will automatically carry out cloud-connected devices.
Many tricks of hackers are displayed in a video demo below, which Vaske’s-Garsia and NYX have made ahead of their Dafcon presentation:
