GPU-Powered MD5 Cracking Reaches New Speeds, Kaspersky Warns
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Kaspersky revisited a 2024 study and found MD5 remains dangerously fast to crack with modern GPUs: about 60% of leaked real-world passwords could be cracked in under an hour and 48% in under a minute, highlighting the need to move to slower, purpose-built hash functions like bcrypt or Argon2 and to enable MFA or passkeys for extra protection.
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