M-240 cloud of hot pixels

[noxy]

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I finally made the jump and got myself an M-240P a few weeks ago to test the M world. Got the unit from a Leica store to have some kind of guarantee it would hold.
I now have a cloud of hot pixels on it - which C1 can easily get rid of. If it was one or two I wouldn't worry too much but this is a lot of it.
Does anyone know what causes these hot pixels, if there is a way to get rid of them, do they come and go?

Any help would be highly appreciated

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[jaapv]

Normally Leica can map the hot pixels out, but if there are too many they will swap out the sensor. Let te camera store handle this. A sensor swap is very expensive. The cause is cosmic radiation. 

[noxy]

Thanks, the picture i linked is indeed hot pixels right?

[Luke_Miller]

I am not able to see hot pixels in your small jpeg file.  Possibly your processing program filtered them out.

[noxy]

There are white and red dots on this image though - where there should be none?
Am I mistaking noise for hot pixels?
Here is another example, DNG and JPG: https://we.tl/t-YFR1pTOdrZ

Thanks for the help @Luke_Miller @jaapv

Edited January 10 by noxy

[pippy]

Could you post a 100% crop of the area in question from the first post?

P.

[Luke_Miller]

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Brought the DNG into Lightroom.  If I boost exposure to bring the skin tones up, I start to see some luminance and color noise in the background.  Looks typical to what I get with my M240. Don't see any hot pixels.

[noxy]

@pippyHere you go. I've taken the lower right corner as example.

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Hallo,

Look here: Leica M

[pippy]

If it were mine I'd send it straight back.

Philip.