exfiltration

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"When a breach at a platform the scale of Booking.com moves from data exfiltration to active phishing campaigns within days, it signals something more deliberate than opportunistic," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

As the aviator hid from Iranian forces, the agency spread false word inside the country that the U.S. military had already located the downed airman and were preparing to move him overland for exfiltration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Desktop agents are still at an early research stage and come with a huge number of risks, including data deletion and exfiltration.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

The podcast for the first time identified the second CIA officer who accompanied Mendez, naming him as agency linguist and exfiltration specialist Ed Johnson.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023

Also, MI6 made it clear that exfiltration was for Gordievsky alone: He would have to leave his wife and two daughters behind, to an uncertain fate.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau