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#2 The Hacker News general February 18, 2026 at 13:32 UTC

Dell RecoverPoint for VMs Zero-Day CVE-2026-22769 Exploited Since Mid-2024

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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China-nexus threat group UNC6201 exploited CVE-2026-22769, a maximum severity (CVSS 10.0) zero-day in Dell RecoverPoint for VMs involving hard-coded credentials, since mid-2024. Google Mandiant and GTIG report the vulnerability went undetected for approximately 18 months before discovery. This highlights the persistence of advanced persistent threat actors and the critical risk of hard-coded credentials in enterprise backup solutions.

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