{"id":159793,"date":"2023-04-08T08:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T07:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=159793"},"modified":"2023-10-18T06:07:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T05:07:26","slug":"ai-successfully-cracks-almost-any-password-and-complex-ones-take-less-than-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/ai-successfully-cracks-almost-any-password-and-complex-ones-take-less-than-an-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"AI successfully cracks almost any password and complex ones take less than an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the advent of services based on modern generative neural networks, which have proven to be extremely effective in various fields and very useful for people, new security risks have emerged.\u00a0One of them is an advanced approach to password disclosure called PassGAN.\u00a0Using the latest AI model, 51% of common passwords can be successfully compromised in less than one minute, with 71% of the passwords easily cracked within a day.\u00a0A terrifyingly serious problem for society in the malicious use of AI was demonstrated by Home Security Heroes as part of a large-scale special study.<\/p>\n

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The table shows the number of characters and the speed of hacking by artificial intelligence – only unique complex passwords count for decades<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PassGAN was used on a large database of over 15,600,000 different passwords.\u00a0The results are not just stunning – they literally make you panic.\u00a0In less than a month, the presented AI will take 81% of ordinary passwords to crack.\u00a0The speed depends on the volume of characters and the complexity of their combination, but the main concern is not just performing traditional brute force by generating samples, but the ability of GAN projects to autonomously learn from Internet database leaks, analyze real character sets, and generally approach the matter on a larger scale. .\u00a0For example, it takes only 7 hours to crack an atypical 8-element medium-level password with a common combination of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and PassGAN symbols.<\/p>\n

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The table shows the number of characters and the speed of hacking by artificial intelligence – only unique complex passwords count for decades<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Home Security Heroes official website offers a tool that allows you to check your passwords for resistance against powerful artificial intelligence algorithms.\u00a0Experts assure that no transmitted information is stored on the company’s servers and is not sent to third parties.\u00a0However, due to excessive caution, it is safer not to enter any of the actual passwords.\u00a0If you want to try an AI password analyzer, it’s better to introduce a theoretical random selection of characters.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in learning more about the processes of how the PassGAN neural network works from the inside, Home Security Heroes has prepared\u00a0a detailed report<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Tips on how to protect yourself from AI password cracking<\/strong>\u00a0:<\/p>\n