exfiltrate
/ˈɛksfɪltɹeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To withdraw (troops, operatives, etc.) surreptitiously from a dangerous position.
Transitive verb
noun
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."
Etymology
After infiltrate.