---
id: 4328
title: "A modern tale of blinkenlights"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/modern-tale-blinkenlights.html"
published_at: "2025-12-10 23:00"
tags: ["vulnerability-research", "hardware-security", "reverse-engineering", "firmware", "iot", "hardware", "bluetooth", "smartwatch", "jieli"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4328"
lang: en
---

# A modern tale of blinkenlights

## Summary

Quarkslab extracts a €12 smartwatch's firmware using a modern variant of a 2000s hardware attack with cheap, robust tooling; the JieLi-based watch lacks real health sensors.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2025-12-10 23:00
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/modern-tale-blinkenlights.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4328