This AI Tool Can Crack Your Password in Sixty Seconds; Here’s How to Protect Yourself

 

Even though ChatGPT may be the AI that everyone is thinking about right now, chatbots aren’t the only AI tool that has emerged in recent times. DALL•E 2 and Runway Gen 2 are just two examples of AI picture and video creators. Sadly, some AI password crackers exist as well, such as PassGAN. 

PassGAN is actually not that new, at least not in the grand scheme of things. The most recent GitHub update was six years ago, and it made its debut back in 2017. In other words, this isn’t a brand-new hacking tool developed in response to the ChatGPT revolution. But when it was recently put to the test by cybersecurity research company Home Security Heroes, the results were startling.

PassGAN can break any — yes, any — seven-character password in six minutes or less, according to the Home Security Heroes study. It can quickly crack passwords of seven characters or fewer, regardless of whether they contain symbols, capital letters, or numbers. 


Modus operandi 

PassGAN combines Password with the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), much like ChatGP

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