First look at the dynamic hash-mode support in upcoming hashcat, powered by the new Rust Bridge. No coding needed: write your pattern on the command line. Don't want to wait for Release? Try it now via GitHub master or https://t.co/B0Ik8dvvmv. Feedback welcome on our Discord

hashcat v7.1.0 released! This update includes important bug fixes, new features, and support for new hash-modes, including KeePass with Argon2. Read the full write-up here: https://t.co/rg8zfMUt3B

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We just finished the Jabbercracky password contest at DEFCON 33! Check out our writeup on using the new Python Bridge in hashcat 7 for rapid prototyping a solution to an unsupported hash mode: https://t.co/HG3o80bAbt

Team Hashcat took first place in the Jabbercracky contest at #DEFCON33! Thanks to HashMob for putting up a great fight and congrats on 2nd place! We're looking forward to your write-up! Huge thanks to Jabbercracky, @Stealthsploit, and @PasswordVillage for organizing!

hashcat v7.0.0 released! After nearly 3 years of development and over 900,000 lines of code changed, this is easily the largest release we have ever had. Detailed writeup is available here: https://t.co/fxAIXNXsEr

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Team hashcat has placed 2nd in the @CrackMeIfYouCan contest at #DEFCON32! Congrats to HashMob on 1st, and @CynoPrime on 3rd place. Looking forward to your writeups! Big thanks to KoreLogic and @PasswordVillage for organizing the contest!

New @hashcat benchmarks on the @Apple M3 Pro! This time we have 2 full runs using Apple's Metal Runtime AND OpenCL runtime for comparison of performance and support. Thanks to disanxian! Full Metal benchmark: https://t.co/T2Q8U3qL1t Full OpenCL Benchmark: https://t.co/tcPLG9U7Ub

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Team hashcat has placed first in the @CrackMeIfYouCan contest at #DEFCON31! This marks our 10th CMIYC win! As always @CynoPrime put up a great fight, congrats on 2nd place, looking forward to the writeup! Big thanks to KoreLogic and @PasswordVillage for organizing the contest!

Contest registration is now live! https://t.co/60AtF8E8a0 #defcon31

Added new hashcat plugin "ENCsecurity Datavault" based on https://t.co/BN8C6tu306 from @Pelissier_S and Boi Sletterink. Up to 20MH/s, depending on configuration, on a single RTX2080Ti.

First @hashcat benchmarks on the new @nvidia RTX 4090! Coming in at an insane >2x uplift over the 3090 for nearly every algorithm. Easily capable of setting records: 300GH/s NTLM and 200kh/s bcrypt w/ OC! Thanks to blazer for the run. Full benchmarks here: https://t.co/Bftucib7P9

Official Team Hashcat write-up of this year's @CrackMeIfYouCan contest at @defcon 2022: https://t.co/w2KCfySXrO @CynoPrime @john_users

Pro results are official: hashcat 1st, Cynosure Prime close 2nd, https://t.co/rKLtzlXd4j Users - Pro close 3rd. There's a slight undercount for some Street hashes, where 1-4 place are all very close, so might make a difference, stay tuned.

Team hashcat has won the @CrackMeIfYouCan contest at #DEFCON30! It was extremely close at the end, everyone put up a great fight. Congrats to @CynoPrime for 2nd place and to HashMob for 3rd place. Thanks to KoreLogic and @PasswordVillage for organizing this year's contest.

From Team @hashcat, Good luck to all the Pro/Street teams competing in @CrackMeIfYouCan for @defcon! May your drinks stay cool and your GPUs too! cc: @CynoPrime @john_users @tr0ntastic

With the commit https://t.co/rDcsn9XbVE hashcat supports Apple's Metal as new compute backend. Thanks to @gm4tr1x for the contribution! All hash-modes and all attack-modes support OpenCL, CUDA, HIP or Metal as compute backend.

We just added support to crack Windows "Hello" PIN/Password authentication in hashcat! Regarding all technical details, please have a look at this forum thread: https://t.co/DA2py0eGZW Thanks to @tijldeneut and @banaanhangwagen for all the intense preparational work

Official Team Hashcat write-up of this year's @CrackMeIfYouCan contest at @defcon 2021: https://t.co/VgVUoebqKq

We just started an official #hashcat discord. If you want to talk to other password crackers, team hashcat members, and hashcat developers feel free to join: