Make Dictionary Attacks More Effective

According to various researches, some 70 per cent of consumers reuse their passwords. In as many as 70 per cent of cases, a password protecting a hard-to-crack Office 2013 document, BitLocker volume or RAR5 archive would be a simple variation of one of the user’s other passwords. Using the filtered wordlist produced by Elcomsoft Internet Password Breaker in Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery with simple mutations (such as appending up to 4 digits to the end of each password) can solve up to 70 per cent of cases in a matter of minutes. Adding a more complex mutation will increase the time spent on attacks, but may deliver even better results.