The computing power of the latest commercially available processors and graphics cards offers new opportunities for cybercriminals. Internet users must think about new passwords in the face of the increase in this threat.
More powerful computers for calculating and hacking. According to a report from Hive Systems published at the end of April, simple graphics cards like those from market leader Nvidia are now capable of cracking “complex” passwords.
A combination considered secure with 8 characters including uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers and symbols, could be cracked in 1 hour by an RTX 4090 graphics card found on the market for 1,800 euros. Concretely, it is the MD5 hash function, an algorithm that is still regularly found for securely storing passwords which could be decrypted by the Nvidia product. The more chips the hacker’s computer contains, the easier it will be to calculate the probabilities.
“ Graphics cards were designed to load images faster on your computer. It turns out they’re also great at calculating hashes. Popular applications like hashcat can break these hashes, with varying results depending on the hardware used “, we can read in the report.
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