Dahua Technology USA Inc. released the following statement on October 24, 2016:
In August, a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack occurred due to a massive botnet created by malware named Mirai. This attack was caused by vulnerabilities in a large number of IoT devices, such as security cameras and DVRs using default credentials. Dahua’s products were initially named as the victims of the hacking and the source of these DDOS attacks in reports by research firm Level 3 Communications, The Wall Street Journal and industry trade publications.