Exfiltrate

Quick meaning: Exfiltrate is a verb meaning (military, transitive) To withdraw (troops, operatives, etc.) surreptitiously from a dangerous position.

Meaning

(military, transitive) To withdraw (troops, operatives, etc.) surreptitiously from a dangerous position.

More Meanings

1. (computer security, transitive) To covertly extract data.
2. that which is exfiltrated, the removed substance or item

Example Sentences

[B]ack in 2017, the CIA had exfiltrated a long-standing source who worked for Putin’s foreign policy chief and had been passing the agency secrets for years. There may be others still in place.

There are multiple ways to exfiltrate files from a compromised system. Since you have ssh access, you can always use sftp or scp, but I want to show you another way of moving files using netcat.

Word Forms

• exfiltrates
• exfiltrating
• exfiltrated

Antonyms for exfiltrate

Common opposites include infiltrate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include retreat, withdraw, pull out, evacuate, retrograde, defect.

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