A password like G7$kL9#mQ2&xP4!w looks strong.
Every password checker rates it "excellent."
But researchers at Irregular just published something worth knowing: that exact string appeared 18 out of 50 times when Claude was asked to generate a password.
The reason: LLMs are prediction engines. They're optimized for plausibility, not randomness. Claude's passwords had ~27 bits of entropy. A truly random password has ~98.
Password checkers can't detect this. They see character variety. They can't see statistical distribution.
It gets worse for developers: Irregular also found AI coding agents hardcoding these patterns directly into Docker configs and .env files — without the developer knowing.
They found the patterns on GitHub.
Are you auditing AI-generated codebases for hardcoded credentials?
#CyberSecurity #PasswordSecurity #DevSecOps #AppSec
Author: T.O. Mercer
You require more passwords 👾 . Finally, released breach.txt, a wordlist built from real-world passwords found in breaches, forum dumps, leaked logs, and other "sources".
https://t.co/mZ8OcPrUlN
Will try to keep it up-to-date, at least for some time 😀
#infosec
A very big hashcat rules collection with 455 rulesets: https://t.co/NkcDSZXs1A
Spreadsheets with benchmarks on how these rules score:
🟢https://t.co/zly4ULQJY4
🟢https://t.co/Bl0knWfXYj
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
Complete @hashcat benchmarks on the @NVIDIAGeForce RTX 5090 FE! Running nice and cool so far with solid improvements across the board. Most hash modes got at least a 20% uplift over the RTX 4090 and some modes boasting quite a bit more!
Full Benchmark: https://t.co/aJ9zI1HjGM
Just wrote a blog entry looking into John the Ripper's new Tokenize attack mode and comparing it to other attacks. Lots of side tangents as well such as using Hashmob wordlists for cracking sessions, and a deep dive into Hashcat Utilities. Link: https://t.co/0fIM8IvPPF
Meet 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀_𝟰! 🕵️♂️
After three years, I'm finally excited to announce the release of 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀_𝟰 and a brand-new website packed with features! Check it out at https://t.co/S8bDNeIUKv.
Here’s a short write-up covering some research Ian Odette (@wikibinge) and I conducted so that our team would have a documented method for cracking Citrix NetScaler system user passwords.
https://t.co/XkK8TB7g3Y
New blog up: "What a Cluster! How Industry Groups and Names Threat Activity Clusters". I decided there was a need for it since we are more regularly talking about UNCs and STACs these days and it can be confusing for those just getting into #cti.
https://t.co/aTuYeER2su
Censys @censysio has gone from the greatest source of certificate intel to the best internet ports/services intel as well. Impressed in the last year with the coverage. 🙇