Hashcat Explained | Access Cracked Hashes & Recover Passwords

Hashcat is a fast, flexible password‑recovery tool that cracks password hashes using CPU and GPU acceleration. It supports hundreds of hash types (MD5, SHA-family, NTLM, bcrypt, md5crypt, and more) and multiple attack modes — dictionary, brute‑force, combinator, mask, and rule‑based attacks.