How to Use exfiltrate in a Sentence

exfiltrate

verb
  • The Bad Batch, then, is sent to exfiltrate the senator and get him to safety.
    — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 2 July 2021
  • Experts marveled at the size of the heists and questioned how the hackers were able to exfiltrate so much data without getting caught.
    — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
  • This is a bot that, if unleashed, might be able to hack into banks, exfiltrate state secrets, and fry crucial infrastructure.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • As long as the data is not exfiltrated and doesn’t leave the city’s system, the city could possibly avoid a lawsuit, Yarbrough said.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 25 May 2023
  • The criminal attackers started to take a copy of the target’s data (exfiltrate it) before locking it up.
    — David B. Black, Forbes, 23 May 2021
  • These breaches often go unnoticed until data has already been exfiltrated, or worse—sold.
    — Mark Doble, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The attack can also be honed to fail an existing passkey and trick a user into registering a new one, which can then be stolen and exfiltrated from the device.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Several tools have appeared in recent days, promising to exfiltrate Recall data.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 7 June 2024
  • From there, attackers can monitor locations and listen to nearby audio in real time and exfiltrate photos and videos.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2020
  • This can lead to data being exfiltrated or system behavior being altered or corrupted.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Depending on the results, the second stage would then root the device and begin to exfiltrate device data to a server controlled by the developers.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 July 2017
  • The New Jersey man created a programming script designed to exfiltrate data.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2019
  • In any event, the attacker had now gained persistent, privileged access to the network and was in a position to exfiltrate sensitive data from it.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Malicious insider threats are known to exploit multiple channels to exfiltrate data.
    — Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Before encrypting the victim’s data and posting a ransom note, the attacker will now first exfiltrate sensitive data over a period of time.
    — Mike Lefebvre, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • When the airman was found, he was taken to two MC-130J aircraft that were waiting nearby to exfiltrate him out of the country.
    — Richard Hall, Time, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Other robots can lay down anti-tank mines, transport tons of materials for infantry on the front lines, or provide cover from the air under heavy artillery to exfiltrate injured soldiers.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The use of overlays is increasingly common, and can be used across multiple apps to capture credentials that can be exfiltrated and used immediately.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • CallStranger can also be used to exfiltrate data inside networks even when they’re protected by data loss prevention tools that are designed to prevent such attacks.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 June 2020
  • In reality, this access is used to steal banking information, install malware or exfiltrate personal data.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • An attacker could potentially exfiltrate data to a thumb drive or external hard drive, replace a server's operating system with a malicious one, or even take the server down.
    — Wired, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The attackers deployed ransomware to disrupt operations and exfiltrated vast amounts of sensitive data.
    — Lars Daniel, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Reporters discovered that the spyware, which could silently hack phones to exfiltrate and record all kinds of data, was likely used against heads of state, journalists, activists, and others by several governments.
    — Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Once inside the network, officials said, the hackers were able to download and exfiltrate data from Equifax to computers outside the United States.
    — Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2020
  • After all, a bridge controller performs the encryption and decryption using that secret key, and so could either secretly exfiltrate and store it or furtively encrypt the data with its own, different key.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • During the second incident, the threat actor used information obtained during the first one to enumerate and exfiltrate the data stored in the S3 buckets.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Furthermore, Panda Stealer is also able to take screenshots of the infected computer and to exfiltrate data from browsers like cookies, passwords, and cards.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 5 May 2021
  • This January, on a trip to Gonaïves in northern Haiti, Henry had to be exfiltrated from a shootout between his security guards and gunmen.
    — Monique Clesca, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2022
  • It is well documented that the PRC uses technology to surveille and exfiltrate information.
    — Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Attackers begin to encrypt files and leverage trusted SaaS traffic to hide malicious activities and exfiltrate the data.
    — Michelle Drolet, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023

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