Kaspersky Analysis Reveals GPU Performance Gains Render Eight-Character Passwords Obsolete
A new study by Kaspersky analyzing 231 million leaked passwords shows that 48% can be cracked in under a minute. Rapid advancements in consumer GPU hardware, specifically the shift to the NVIDIA RTX 5090, have dramatically reduced the time required to break simple hashes, rendering traditional eight-character passwords virtually useless against modern brute-force and AI-assisted attacks.