verb
- present participle of exfiltrate; to secretly remove or extract (a person, data, or material) from a place, organization, or system, typically without authorization
Usage: often used in military, intelligence, cybersecurity, and espionage contexts; can refer to physical removal of people or digital extraction of information
Examples
- The spy was caught exfiltrating classified documents from the embassy.
- Hackers were exfiltrating customer data through a hidden backdoor in the system.
- The military team succeeded in exfiltrating the hostages under cover of darkness.
- Security analysts detected unusual network activity suggesting someone was exfiltrating sensitive files.
- The whistleblower faced charges for exfiltrating internal communications.
- Cybersecurity experts are investigating how the attackers managed exfiltrating such large amounts of data undetected.