exfiltrate
verb
ex·fil·trate
| \ eks-ˈfil-ˌtrāt
, ˈeks-(ˌ)fil-\
, ˈeks-(ˌ)fil-\
exfiltrated;
exfiltrating
Definition of exfiltrate
1
: to remove (someone) furtively from a hostile area
Kublinski avoided detection. He was exfiltrated from Poland, with his family, only after being compromised by a leak from the U.S. government.— Radek Sikorski
2
: to steal (sensitive data) from a computer (as with a flash drive)
: to escape from a hostile area
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Other Words from exfiltrate
exfiltration
\ ˌeks-(ˌ)fil-ˈtrā-shən
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noun
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noun
Examples of exfiltrate in a Sentence
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An attacker could potentially exfiltrate data to a thumb drive or external hard drive, replace a server's operating system with a malicious one, or even take the server down. — Wired, "Supermicro Bug Could Let "Virtual USBs" Take Over Corporate Servers," 3 Sep. 2019 One involves attaching malicious PDF or Microsoft Word documents that exfiltrate itself when opened. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, "Decade-old Efail attack can decrypt previously obtained encrypted emails," 14 May 2018 The vulnerabilities allow attackers to exfiltrate email plaintexts by embedding the previously obtained ciphertext into unviewable parts of an email and combining it with HTML coding. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, "Decade-old Efail attack can decrypt previously obtained encrypted emails," 14 May 2018 The attacker can use their privileged perch to exfiltrate sensitive data, move further inside the compromised network, or as a proxy to conceal hacks on computers outside the network. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, "Raw sockets backdoor gives attackers complete control of some Linux servers," 16 Feb. 2018 Depending on the results, the second stage would then root the device and begin to exfiltrate device data to a server controlled by the developers. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, "Stealthy Google Play apps recorded calls and stole e-mails and texts," 27 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'exfiltrate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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