https://hackingpassion.com/tags/hashcat/Recent content in Hashcat on HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]HugoenSun, 03 May 2026 10:47:49 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/hashcat-cracks-the-cracker-cve-2026/Sun, 03 May 2026 10:47:49 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/hashcat-cracks-the-cracker-cve-2026/<p><strong>Hashcat v7.1.2 has three unpatched vulnerabilities, all rated 9.8 out of 10.</strong> The tool that security professionals use to crack passwords can be used to crack the machine running it. The CVEs landed on May 1, 2026. There is still no patch.</p> <p>Hashcat is the standard tool for recovering passwords from hashes. A hash is what a password looks like after a one-way scrambling algorithm runs over it. When a database leaks, the passwords do not come out as readable text. They come out as hashes, long strings of letters and numbers that look like gibberish. Hashcat works backwards. It takes guesses, runs the same algorithm over them, and checks whether the result matches a hash in the list. A single <strong>RTX 4090</strong> can run through nearly <strong>300 billion</strong> of those checks every second for the <strong>NTLM</strong> hash type used across Windows corporate networks. The tool has won the KoreLogic &ldquo;Crack Me If You Can&rdquo; <code>562901440119f978aa2b3ed1c1b6439a</code> competition at DEF CON multiple times. Turns out, you can.</p>