The Path from Capture to Compromise

For this challenge, we are provided with a PCAP file. We first analyze it using Wireshark. Based on the SYN requests and the RST-ACK…

Hashcat is a powerful tool for recovering lost passwords, and, thanks to GPU acceleration, it’s one of the fastest. It works by rapidly trying different password guesses to determine the original password from its scrambled (hashed) version.

by Zahidul Islam Ratul

Hashcat has released version 7.0.0 after two years of work, bringing massive performance gains, GPU virtualization, new algorithms, and a Python Bridge system.

During my journey through the TryHackMe room: Hashing Basics, I encountered an interesting situation while working on Task 6, Question 4…

Questions:

This post is mostly for Cybersecurity students that want to improve their password cracking skills while participating in the NCL (National…

Today, I continued my learning on hashing. I focused on recognising Password Hashes, password Cracking and hashing for Integrity Checking.

Password cracking was much easier than I expected

🏆🏆🏆I’m beyond excited to post this blog post because this has been something I have set my eyes on for 3 years!

Passwords — A Cracking Christmas

Let’s have a bit of fun with password cracking (can’t wait, uh?). In one of my last projects I have to deal with hashcat to crack hashed…

Challenge Hash: $6$aReallyHardSalt$6WKUTqzq.UQQmrm0p/T7MPpMbGNnzXPMAXi4bJMl9be.cfi3/qxIf.hsGpS41BqMhSrHVXgMpdjS6xeKZAs02.

Introduction

During a security analysis of WPA3, Jens ‘Atom’ Steube, administrator and lead developer of Hashcat, discovered the leakage of the PMKID…

A step-by-step CTF guide covering dictionary attacks, hash cracking, and Linux privesc.

Got a fat NTDS.dit dump last week. 10,247 NTLM hashes from a mid-sized company, no context, no hints — just hashes. Figured I’d document…

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