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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɡsfilˈtɾate/ [eɣ̞s.fil̪ˈt̪ɾa.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Syllabification: ex‧fil‧tra‧te

Verb

exfiltrate

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