Hashcat Review 2026

Last updated: May 2026

Open Source

Advanced GPU-accelerated password recovery and hash cracking tool.

CategoryBug Bounty & Offensive Security
PricingFree/OSS
Rating★★★★ 4.6 / 5
LicenseOpen Source

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Detailed Review

Hashcat is the worlds fastest password recovery tool supporting over 350 hash types including MD5 SHA-1 SHA-256 bcrypt NTLM Kerberos WPA/WPA2 and many more. It leverages GPU acceleration to achieve billions of password guesses per second making it essential for penetration testers auditing password strength and forensic investigators recovering credentials. Hashcat supports multiple attack modes including dictionary brute-force combinator rule-based and mask attacks. It runs on Windows macOS and Linux and supports AMD and NVIDIA GPUs.

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