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Dell 0-Day Vulnerability Exploited by Chinese Hackers since mid

Cybersecuritynews •Guru Baran • February 18, 2026

A critical zero-day exploitation campaign targeting Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-22769, carries a maximum CVSSv3.1 score of 10.0 and has been under active exploitation since at least mid-2024. Incident response engagements attribute this activity to UNC6201, a suspected PRC-nexus threat cluster that shares notable overlaps with the group publicly known […]

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Chinese Hackers Exploit Dell Zero-Day Flaw CVE-2026-22769 Since Mid-2024 A Chinese state-backed hacking group, UNC6201, has been exploiting a critical zero-day vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines since at least mid-2024. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-22769, features a maximum severity rating due to hardcoded credentials, allowing unauthorized access to VMware virtual machine backups. This exploitation was revealed by Mandiant and the Google Threat Intelligence Group on February 17, 2026. 40 sources 70

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