Fed agencies ordered to patch Dell bug by Saturday after exploitation warning Editor's note: This article was updated with comment from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at 8:00 a.m. EST. on Feb. 19. Dell and Google released notices on Tuesday about CVE-2026-22769, warning that a sophisticated Chinese actor has been targeting the bug since at least mid-2024. Dell’s advisory said the vulnerability carries a severity score of 10 out of 10 and provided fixes for the issue. The advisory notes Google’s findings of “limited active exploitation.” Google-owned security firm Mandiant published its own lengthy blog about the vulnerability and the attacks that resulted from it. Mandiant said the activity was targeted at organizations across North America. The Cybersecurity and…