The new research indicates that the speed at which today's artificial intelligence can crack passwords is astonishing

Cybersecurity company Home Security Heroes published a study on artificial intelligence and password cracking. Specifically, the researchers studied a new artificial intelligence password cracking tool called PassGAN (Password Generating Adversarial Network). In this study, researchers used PassGAN to run a list of more than 15 million passwords. The results show that the commonly used passwords of 51% can be cracked in one minute, 65% can be cracked in one hour, 71% can be cracked in one day, and 81% can be cracked in one month. In addition, the team also presented the results of the experiment in tabular form, showing that almost every password containing six characters or less was immediately cracked. According to the organization, passwords longer than 18 characters are considered safe for tools like PassGAN. According to the table, it would take the tool at least 10 months to calculate an 18-character password that uses only numbers. (Source: Home Security Heroes)