Password cracker with AI: Financial expert warns of increasing risk

Password cracker with AI: Financial expert warns of increasing risk

According to a report by www.faz.net, things are bad for passwords and there is no improvement in sight. Password crackers with artificial intelligence will experience an unexpected upswing this year. AI helps improve the quality of predicted passwords by trying out likely passwords based on password patterns and chained password algorithms.

Last year, security researchers evaluated data from a hacker attack in which 32 million user data were stolen in an unencrypted database. The remaining 15.6 million passwords were presented to an AI, and after evaluation, the corresponding tool could have guessed half of all passwords in less than a minute. In less than an hour it was 65 percent, within a day it was 71 percent.

These developments have serious implications for password security and user privacy. Companies must invest more in secure password management systems to ensure the security of their user data. Consumers should also pay attention to using secure passwords and changing them regularly.

The increasing efficiency of password crackers with artificial intelligence also poses significant challenges for the IT security industry. It will be critical that organizations proactively invest in developing and implementing new security solutions to keep pace with advanced password cracking techniques and protect the integrity of their data.