exfiltrate
Speech parts
1. exfiltrate - Noun
2. exfiltrate - Verb
Meaning
escape furtively, as from an area under enemy control
transfer secretly out of an area under enemy control
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Examples
the military commander was exfiltrated on a French plane
Once opened, an LNK file included in the archive executed malicious code that aimed to exfiltrate files from the victims’ computers and enable further intrusions.
They can search through emails, chat histories, and files looking for passwords or interesting data to exfiltrate, or set up forwarding rules to get access to a steady stream of email without needing to sign-in again, researchers said.
"In a nutshell, Efail abuses active content of HTML emails, for example externally loaded images or styles, to exfiltrate plaintext through requested URLs," the researchers write.
With cybercriminals using SSL and TLP encryption to hide malicious code and exfiltrate data, inspection of encrypted traffic continues to be crucial.
If you know the ransomware variant, you can research it and confidently conclude that the ransomware did not exfiltrate data.