How to Use exfiltrate in a Sentence

exfiltrate

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• The Bad Batch, then, is sent to exfiltrate the senator and get him to safety.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 2 July 2021
• From there, the agency quietly exfiltrated Mr. Smolenkov, his wife and three young children to a safe house in the U.S.
  — James Bamford, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The New Jersey man created a programming script designed to exfiltrate data.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The departing Americans did manage to exfiltrate some of the most notorious IS prisoners being held in north-eastern Syria.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• Several tools have appeared in recent days, promising to exfiltrate Recall data.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 7 June 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
• 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
• The attacker can use their privileged perch to exfiltrate sensitive data, move further inside the compromised network, or as a proxy to conceal hacks on computers outside the network.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Now, the company has disclosed a second incident that began in mid-August and allowed attackers to rampage through the company's cloud storage and exfiltrate sensitive data.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2023
• Ransomware extortion payments are a good example, where hackers encrypt and exfiltrate data to ensure victimized companies pay the ransom.
  — Yuen Pin Yeap, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Malicious insider threats are known to exploit multiple channels to exfiltrate data.
  — Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
• Once the payload is delivered, the ransomware will try to establish a connection with the command-and-control server to communicate with the attackers to receive further instructions, exchange encryption keys and/or exfiltrate data.
  — Etay Maor, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• What’s more, the packages were programmed to exfiltrate sensitive user information, including bash history and the contents of /etc/shadow, the directory where Linux user password data is stored.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 May 2022
• Attackers exfiltrated data between April 14 and April 25.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 12 July 2024
• Collecting this baseline information provides the ability to detect unusual or anomalous API usage that might signal an attack or attempt to exfiltrate sensitive data.
  — Jyoti Bansal, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• The vulnerabilities allow attackers to exfiltrate email plaintexts by embedding the previously obtained ciphertext into unviewable parts of an email and combining it with HTML coding.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024