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exfiltrate

[eks-fil-treyt, eks-fil-treyt] / ɛksˈfɪl treɪt, ˈɛks fɪlˌtreɪt /


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Shoring up defenses can certainly raise costs on Chinese hackers and make it more difficult to exfiltrate information on government agencies, businesses, civil society groups, and journalists.

From Barron's Nov. 13, 2025

But, he added, that finding could point to a broader campaign to "exfiltrate and farm data over the long term", in order to conduct sabotage operations in the future.

From BBC May 25, 2023

As events inevitably spiral and Tamar repeatedly dodges or disobeys orders to exfiltrate herself and Milad, credibility and plot contrivance do a wild dance.

From New York Times May 10, 2022

The hackers then worked to exfiltrate information from the officials’ usage of websites including Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Facebook and Yahoo, the analysts said.

From Washington Times Jul. 15, 2021

I can infiltrate and exfiltrate any room on this campus, D. You've seen me do it.

From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory

The longtime CIA operative had exfiltrated the families of spies from the most repressive of Middle Eastern regimes and tattooed the word “ARGONAUT,” an homage to seafaring heroes from Greek mythology, across his right forearm.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Manning exfiltrated information on a CD marked “Lady Gaga” in full view of her fellow soldiers.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2025

It said its initial findings were that personal information belonging to 82,946 people had been "exfiltrated" by hackers.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2024

“It was determined that the unauthorized third party exfiltrated information from the server on May 28, 2023, and May 31, 2023.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 1, 2023

But he always did: no one exfiltrated like our Jolu.

From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory

The hackers also built a system to break down each portion of the campaigns, from scanning for vulnerabilities to exfiltrating data, into discrete tasks that didn’t raise alarms, the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 13, 2025

"It's a good way to use the model without being concerned about what it's exfiltrating" to China, said Christopher Caen, CEO of Mill Pond Research.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2025

Ms. Sadova has also been collaborating with museums in Kyiv and Kharkiv, exfiltrating their collections to safer locations west.

From New York Times Jul. 15, 2022

Madory said it could have been an indicator of bad actors exfiltrating data or possibly a sign the company was attempting to remediate.

From Washington Post Oct. 18, 2021

“In general, ransomware, and particularly the kind where you’re exfiltrating a lot of data that you’re going to use for double extortion later, is extremely noisy,” Mr. Anderson told The Washington Times.

From Washington Times Jul. 3, 2021




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