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title: Devices Used in Dyn Takedown Recalled
description: The devices infected with the Mirai source code are being recalled by a Chinese electronic firm.
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# [Devices Used in Dyn Takedown Recalled](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/devices-used-in-dyn-takedown-recalled)

 Written by [SecureWorld News Team](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/author/secureworld-news-team) | Tue | Oct 25, 2016 | 7:00 AM Z

The devices infected with the Mirai source code are being recalled by a Chinese electronic firm.

[We Live Security Explains:](http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/10/24/webcam-firm-recalls-hackable-devices-mighty-mirai-botnet-attack/)

> Chinese electronic firm Hangzhou XiongMai (XM) says it will recall some of its IoT devices, including webcams, after claims that they were widely exploited by malicious hackers that launched a massive denial-of-service attack on Friday October 21st.
> 
> The distributed denial-of-service attack targeted domain name service Dyn, who confirmed this weekend in a [statement](http://hub.dyn.com/static/hub.dyn.com/dyn-blog/dyn-statement-on-10-21-2016-ddos-attack.html) that it was hit by a “sophisticated attack”, which included tens of millions of attacks from from IP addresses associated with Mirai, a botnet compromised of hijacked IoT devices.
> 
> As a consequences many web users found that they were unable to visit a wide array of popular online services, [including Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, GitHub, Etsy, Tumblr, Spotify, PayPal, Verizon, Comcast, and the Playstation network](http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/10/24/10-things-know-october-21-iot-ddos-attacks/).

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