exfiltrate

English

Etymology

After infiltrate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛksfɪltɹeɪt/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Verb

exfiltrate (third-person singular simple present exfiltrates, present participle exfiltrating, simple past and past participle exfiltrated)

  1. (military, transitive) To withdraw (troops) surreptitiously from a dangerous position.
  2. (computer security, transitive) To covertly extract data.
    • 2019 December 5, Course Hero[1], page 3:
      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.

Antonyms

Translations

Noun

exfiltrate (plural exfiltrates)

  1. that which is exfiltrated, the removed substance or item

Spanish

Verb

exfiltrate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of exfiltrar combined with te