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Passware Kit Business Changelog

What's new in Passware Kit Business 2024.2.0

Apr 4, 2024
  • New Features:
  • Windows password reset: extended RAID drivers support [SUP-1807]
  • Improved GPU-accelerated credential recovery for older versions of Mozilla
  • New QR-codes and short links simplifying the workflow in air-gapped environments
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed problem with Passware Kit not starting due to corrupted config file [SUP-1782]
  • Resolved the “…image is likely corrupted"…” error for ISO files in Windows Key
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes [SUP-1790] [SUP-1793]

New in Passware Kit Business 2024.2.0 (Apr 4, 2024)

  • New Features:
  • Distributed Password Recovery: introducing Resource Manager
  • Password recovery for yescrypt hashes
  • Saving a decrypted image as a DD file for all FDE images
  • Improved GPU-accelerated credential recovery for older versions of Mozilla
  • New QR-codes and short links simplifying the workflow in air-gapped environments
  • Bugfixes:
  • UI fixes and quality-of-life improvements for distributed processes
  • Resolved duplicating speeds and inconsistent stats for distributed password recovery [SUP-1806] [SUP-1791]
  • Resolved occasional “Internal error” records in the Log tab for batch recovery with more than 500 files
  • Resolved issues for 1Password databases with special characters in the passwords
  • Fixed problem with Passware Kit not starting due to corrupted config file [SUP-1782]
  • Resolved “Unable to load Dictionary” error for Passware Agent for Linux
  • Fixed detection of unsupported PGP WDE images
  • Fixed an issue with incorrect attack order where in some cases earlier attacks would not start before later attacks complete
  • Fixed incorrect timeout in batch mode [SUP-1804]
  • Minor fixes for QuickBooks password recovery [SUP-1809]
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes [SUP-1790] [SUP-1793]

New in Passware Kit Business 2024.1.1 (Feb 6, 2024)

  • Improvements:
  • Improved handling of external links when Internet connection is not available
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed incorrect display of CPU load percentage for cases with low utilization level
  • Other bug fixes

New in Passware Kit Business 2024.1.0 (Dec 14, 2023)

  • New Features:
  • New product icons
  • Bugfixes:
  • Discontinued TACC support, as the product has reached end-of-life
  • Fixed minor issues with Xieve-attack [SUP-1742]
  • Fixed occasional issues with TrueCrypt password recovery in Hardware Benchmark
  • Other fixes and software quality-of-life improvements [SUP-1713]

New in Passware Kit Business 2023.4.0 (Oct 19, 2023)

  • New Features:
  • Master password recovery for the latest Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
  • GPU acceleration for NTLMv2 hashes
  • Optional recovery of PDF owner passwords
  • Added new environment variables for manual Linux Agent configuration
  • Support for macOS 14 Sonoma [SUP-1755]
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with the Windows Key Demo password reset
  • Fixed the display of the 0-partition in batch mode for some FDE images
  • Stability fixes for Encryption Analyzer
  • Resolved occasional crashes on macOS Mojave [SUP-1749]
  • UI bugfixes and improvements [SUP-1713]

New in Passware Kit Business 2023.3.1 (Aug 8, 2023)

  • Improvements:
  • Improved “Known passwords/part” attack UI
  • Apple Notes recovery is supported in Passware Kit Standard Plus
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved "Unhandled QuickBooks clue subtype” error for some QuickBooks files [SUP-1750]
  • Fixed issue with saving custom dictionaries after restart
  • Fixed "Internal error" that occurred when saving jobs in certain cases
  • Minor fixes for scanning and processing encrypted files
  • Resolved issues with creating an unprotected copy for MS Excel files larger than 1 GB [SUP-1726]
  • Fixed issues with launching Passware Kit Forensic from Encryption Analyzer
  • Minor UI bugfixes [SUP-1713]

New in Passware Kit Business 2023.3.0 (Jul 11, 2023)

  • GPU-accelerated password recovery for Apple Notes
  • Support for KeePass key files and the latest KDBX4 format
  • Instant AxCrypt decryption using private key files
  • Password recovery for QuickBooks 2019-2022 for Mac
  • Hardware acceleration with Microsoft Azure Cloud Agent
  • Decryption of Apple Disk Images (DMG files)
  • Bitlocker decryption with Recovery Key: support for PBKDF2
  • UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2023.2.0 (Apr 4, 2023)

  • New Features:
  • Password recovery for Steganos containers
  • Brute-force recovery of VeraCrypt PIM parameters
  • Support for mounted physical drives for FDE decryption
  • Support for Windows NTLMv2 hash
  • Instant password recovery for Opera GX and Crypto browsers
  • Support for password recovery for VBA projects in Passware Kit Basic
  • Automatic saving of Dictionary Manager settings
  • New dictionary: Ukrainian
  • Bug fixes:
  • Revised keyboard shortcuts in the Attack Settings editor for improved usability
  • Fixed an issue with an incorrect message displayed for some unsupported hash files
  • Resolved the “Slightly damaged” error for some QuickBooks files [SUP-1685]
  • UI improvements and stability fixes [SUP-1671]

New in Passware Kit Business 2023.1.1 (Feb 2, 2023)

  • Improvements:
  • Batch mode performance improved for projects with over 1,000 items [SUP-1648]
  • GPU Utilization option in Passware Kit Agent
  • Increased TrueCrypt calibration timeout in Hardware Benchmark
  • UI minor improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved navigation issues after stopping the password recovery process
  • Minor QuickBooks password reset fixes
  • UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2023.1.0 (Dec 14, 2022)

  • New Features:
  • Simplified setup of decryption for multiple disk images
  • Password recovery for AxCrypt v.2
  • Instant decryption of the latest VeraCrypt versions via memory analysis
  • Updated Rainbow Tables for Office to increase the instant decryption success rate for MS Excel and Word files to 99.8%
  • Ability to establish a GPU utilization level in Tools | Options
  • Improved integrity check for the imported Rainbow Tables
  • GPU acceleration UI improvements
  • Batch mode minor UI improvements
  • UI improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Detection of ZIP archives with unsupported PKWARE encryption [SUP-1649]
  • Resolved "Calibration timed out” issue in Hardware benchmark for TrueCrypt [SUP-1610]
  • Fixed an issue with displaying GUID instead of account names for macOS Ventura
  • Minor stability fixes

New in Passware Kit Business 2022.4.0 (Oct 25, 2022)

  • New features:
  • VeraCrypt hash type detection for Windows System volumes with GPT
  • Password recovery and data extraction from 1Password v8
  • Password recovery for a specified QuickBooks account
  • Remote update of Passware Kit Agents to a compatible version
  • Option to disable MD5 calculation
  • New dictionary - Vietnamese
  • Added display of passwords on the Passwords Found tab as they get recovered
  • A list of supported file types is now available in the Help menu
  • A newsletter subscription option is available during Windows installation
  • UI improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Minor navigation UI improvements
  • UI bugfixes for the FileVault/APFS menu
  • Support for extents larger than 4GB for T2 Add-on [SUP-1607]
  • Minor UI improvements for the Dictionary Manager
  • Batch recovery stability improvements [SUP-1574]
  • Resolved minor software activation issues
  • Removed “Filed to parse from session” error record from Log files

New in Passware Kit Business 2022.3.1 (Aug 25, 2022)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved the "TypeError: t is not a function" error [SUP-1588]
  • Improved password verification for Dashlane
  • UI bugfixes for Rainbow tables attack
  • Several UI and stability bugfixes for FileVault/APFS
  • Faster processing speed for 1000+ files in batch mode [SUP-1574]
  • Multiple bugfixes and improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2022.3.0 (Jul 27, 2022)

  • New Features:
  • Recovery of deleted data for APFS images
  • Redesigned FileVault/APFS setup process
  • Decryption of QuickBooks for Mac 2019 – 2022 databases
  • GPU acceleration for bcrypt password recovery
  • Password recovery for Acronis 2010 – 2016 backup files
  • Improved stability for Acronis password recovery
  • Password recovery for Dashlane for Mac
  • Support for hybrid rainbow tables
  • Improved Rainbow Tables Attack UI
  • RTI2 tables processing is 25% faster
  • Option on the Passwords Found tab to view the attack that found the password
  • Search option on Attacks Tab
  • Dictionary Attack UI improvements
  • Support for FDE images with different sector sizes
  • Faster startup
  • Multiple UI improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved issue with .csv reports not being saved correctly
  • A brute-force attack can be launched after the APFS volume has already been decrypted [SUP-1555]
  • Support for seamless password recovery for hidden and outer partitions for some VeraCrypt images [SUP-1531]
  • Cross-platform implementation of hot keys
  • Reduced network distributed decryption task size to prevent the loss of the recovery state in the event of an error or network issue [SUP-1551]
  • Improved a display on the Logs Tab for files that are not supported on macOS
  • Resolved an issue with some Passware Bootable Memory Imager files not being parsed
  • License manager improvements
  • Resolved detection for some 1Password files
  • Application navigation fixes
  • Multiple bugfixes and improvements [SUP-1563]

New in Passware Kit Business 2022.2.1 (May 19, 2022)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with resetting passwords for some LiveID accounts [SUP-1543]
  • Fixed an issue with “Find Encrypted Files” not working due to a disconnected network drive
  • Improved display of the dictionaries list in the Dictionary Manager
  • Minor UI improvements and bug fixes

New in Passware Kit Business 2022.2.0 (Apr 12, 2022)

  • New Features:
  • Password recovery for bcrypt hash
  • Passware Kit for Mac with GPU acceleration support
  • QuickBooks 2022 support (Windows edition)
  • OneNote Revision Store support
  • Password recovery for Dashlane browser extension
  • Improved iCloud Keychain records extraction
  • Acronis 2021 backup files with a *.TIBX extension
  • Support for Bitlocker VMK in HEX format
  • Added Average speed value to Performance Tab
  • Added Troubleshooting tab in the Tools|Options
  • New dictionary: Icelandic
  • Bugfixes:
  • Improved the way recovery state is saved for various file types [SUP-1522]
  • Improved support for Acronis files with comments
  • Improved display of Passware Kit Agent on high-resolution displays
  • Optimized OpenCL acceleration for RAR3 archives
  • Improved sync of "Light/Dark" theme setting with system settings
  • Detection of unsupported solid archive encryption for RAR archives [SUP-1520]
  • Resolved issues with some antivirus products reporting false positives for Passware Kit
  • Improved telemetry for some GPU cards
  • Resolved “Failed to initialize password recovery tasks for file” error
  • Minor improvements and bug fixes [SUP-1518] [SUP-1519] [SUP-1524]

New in Passware Kit Business 2022.1.2 (Mar 22, 2022)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved "Error: Call timeout” error [SUP-1503]
  • Resolved an issue with Plaintext attack for some ZIP files [SUP-1508]
  • Improved the way recovery state is saved for ZIP files [SUP-1498]
  • Improved GPU acceleration for some TrueCrypt files [SUP-1506]
  • Improved support for Acronis files larger than 4GB
  • Resolved an issue with some LUKS images
  • Minor UI improvements and bug fixes

New in Passware Kit Business 2022.1.1 (Feb 3, 2022)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Added an option to sync "Light/Dark" theme setting with system settings
  • UI and performance improvements for Dictionary Manager
  • Resolved an issue with the “Continue Recovery” option missing for FDE recovery
  • Improved recovery speed for Acronis backup files
  • Decreased memory usage for Dictionary attacks
  • Minor UI improvements and fixes

New in Passware Kit Business 2022.1.0 (Dec 15, 2021)

  • New Features:
  • Support for Windows 11
  • Support for macOS Monterey
  • GPU-accelerated password recovery for Acronis backups
  • List of passwords supported by the Known Password attack
  • Instant LUKS2 decryption via memory analysis
  • Support for LUKS2 AES-CBC plain encryption
  • Batch mode improvements
  • New Passware dictionaries
  • Hardware Benchmark added to Demo version
  • Shutdown and Reboot options in the Bootable Memory Imager
  • “About” box allows copying the product key, version, and product name
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with incorrect image processing in PDF files [SUP-1397]
  • Improved sort options for the Find Encrypted Files page [SUP-1417]
  • Revised Read Me document for Passware Agent for Linux [SUP-1424]
  • Resolved an issue with processing some custom dictionaries [SUP-1432]
  • Multiple Dark theme improvements
  • Resolved an error caused by scanning the root folder on macOS
  • Minor UI improvements and fixes [SUP-1396] [SUP-1427]

New in Passware Kit Business 2021.4.1 (Nov 4, 2021)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved “editingGroupCid is undefined” error [SUP-1394]
  • Resolved “PubSub: Not found handle on engine process” error [SUP-1407]
  • Fixed an issue with decryption of some VeraCrypt containers [SUP-1376]
  • Resolved an issue with Wizard showing default attacks after configuration
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2021.4.0 (Oct 21, 2021)

  • New Features:
  • Batch mode: password recovery for FDE
  • Mac version of all Passware Kit editions
  • Email notifications of password recovery progress
  • Support for AFF4 image
  • Decryption of multiple APFS volumes in the same image
  • FileMaker 19 support
  • New dictionary: Turkish
  • Dark theme
  • Usability improvements for batch mode and settings editor
  • Bugfixes:
  • Reduced decryption time of VeraCrypt partitions
  • Resolved “Calculation failed on LUKS” error [SUP-1384] [SUP-1325]
  • Fixed an issue with more than 500 passwords shown in a report
  • Fixed an issue with the “Undo” option not working when a new model is added to an existing one [SUP-1374]
  • “Clear History” option now works from any page of Passware Kit
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2021.3.1 (Jul 19, 2021)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed an issue with adding drivers to Windows Key [SUP-1300]
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2021.3.0 (Jun 30, 2021)

  • What’s new:
  • Passware Kit Forensic for Mac
  • Decryption of LUKS2 disks
  • Password recovery for Dashlane Desktop
  • Batch mode: improved performance for 1,000+ files
  • Passware Bootable Memory Imager supports UEFI 1.x
  • Passware Rainbow Tables for Windows
  • Keychain extraction improvements
  • Usability improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2021.2.0 (Apr 15, 2021)

  • New Features:
  • 13x faster on Zip and support for large archives
  • Ability to view settings of successful password recovery attacks
  • Usability improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Passware from checking some passwords for 7Zip archives after disabling and then enabling a GPU or CPU
  • UI improvements and minor fixes [SUP-1249]

New in Passware Kit Business 2021.1.3 (Feb 7, 2021)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with some PDF files [SUP-1215]
  • Resolved an error with TPR acceleration [SUP-1225]

New in Passware Kit Business 2021.1.2 (Jan 20, 2021)

  • New Features:
  • Resolved an issue with showing the wrong number of passwords analyzed in some cases [SUP-1210]
  • Resolved an “Internal Error” issue for some hardware acceleration cases [SUP-1212]
  • UI improvements and minor fixes [SUP-1209]

New in Passware Kit Business 2021.1.1 (Dec 24, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved issues for some GPUs [SUP-1200]
  • Resolved an intermittent issue occurring after stopping Passware Agent [SUP-1197] [POS-4330]
  • Resolved an Internal Error while APFS T2 decryption using an iTunes backup for some disk images [POS-4166]
  • Resolved an issue causing an incorrect number of passwords displayed for some brute-force attacks [POS-4314]
  • UI improvements and minor fixes [PKM-339]

New in Passware Kit Business 2021.1.0 (Dec 16, 2020)

  • New Features:
  • Preview of generated passwords
  • GPU-accelerated recovery of PDF owner password
  • PDF password recovery improvements
  • Import of dictionaries preserving the order of passwords
  • Bugfixes:
  • Added an option to change file encoding
  • UI improvements and minor fixes

New in Passware Kit Business 2020.4.2 (Nov 27, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Improved detection for some TrueCrypt images with pre-boot authentication [SUP-1186]
  • Minor improvements to support some APFS images [SUP-1187]
  • Minor GUI improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2020.4.0 (Oct 14, 2020)

  • New Features:
  • New Mask attack
  • Password recovery for iWork 2020 files
  • New modifier: transliteration for keyboard layout
  • Reports saved as CSV files
  • Bugfixes:
  • Minor UI improvements
  • Resolved recovery attack failing for some Internet Explorer 7-9 forms

New in Passware Kit Business 2020.3.2 (Aug 20, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with auto-update showing an error message for slow internet connections

New in Passware Kit Business 2020.3.1 (Aug 7, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Hardware acceleration improvements
  • Resolved an issue with some long passwords for RAR archives not being processed correctly [SUP-1142]
  • Resolved potential memory corruption issue
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2020.3.0 (Jul 14, 2020)

  • New Features:
  • Support for TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt containers protected with keyfiles
  • Password recovery for additional crypto wallets
  • Instant recovery of website passwords from Opera, Chrome, and Edge browsers
  • Instant recovery of Outlook 2016/2019 email passwords
  • Instant decryption of Bitlocker disks with a known Recovery Key
  • Decryptum performance improvements for TrueCrypt and Zip
  • Automatic updates of Passware Kit Agents for Linux
  • Batch mode improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Improved password recovery speed for PDF documents on systems with multiple GPUs
  • Passware Kit Agent for Linux no longer requires "libgsf" library [SUP-1129]
  • Fixed a bug that caused a crash when WipeKey is specified, but not the FileVault image [SUP-1141]
  • Fixed occasional freezing during password recovery in batch mode

New in Passware Kit Business 2020.3.0 (Jul 14, 2020)

  • New Features:
  • Support for TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt containers protected with keyfiles
  • Password recovery for additional crypto wallets
  • Instant recovery of website passwords from Opera, Chrome, and Edge browsers
  • Instant recovery of Outlook 2016/2019 email passwords
  • Instant decryption of Bitlocker disks with a known Recovery Key
  • Decryptum performance improvements for TrueCrypt and Zip
  • Automatic updates of Passware Kit Agents for Linux
  • Batch mode improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Improved password recovery speed for PDF documents on systems with multiple GPUs
  • Passware Kit Agent for Linux no longer requires "libgsf" library [SUP-1129]
  • Fixed a bug that caused a crash when WipeKey is specified, but not the FileVault image [SUP-1141]
  • Fixed occasional freezing during password recovery in batch mode

New in Passware Kit Business 2020.2.2 (Jun 8, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Improved performance for multi-GPU systems
  • Resolved an issue that caused an error message for some VeraCrypt/TrueCrypt containers while running dictionary attacks [SUP-1118] [SUP-1133] [SUP-1137]

New in Passware Kit Business 2020.2.1 (Jun 8, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Added recovered password hints for FileVault accounts to the report
  • Resolved an issue where password recovery process would freeze in Demo version
  • Resolved an issue that caused an error message for some VeraCrypt/TrueCrypt containers during dictionary attacks [SUP-1114] [SUP-1115] [SUP-1118] [SUP-1128]
  • Fixed an issue that could cause an error message while processing certain types of dictionaries [SUP-1107]
  • Fixed a bug that caused an error message to appear for some PDF files during hardware-accelerated password attacks [SUP-1117] [SUP-1123]
  • Resolved compatibility issues with some older NVIDIA GPU cards [SUP-1120]
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2020.2.0 (Apr 7, 2020)

  • New Features:
  • Passwords extraction from macOS system keychain
  • Instant decryption and password recovery for QuickBooks 2020 databases
  • Improved GPU performance
  • UI improvements for displaying recovered passwords
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved system memory error caused by some VeraCrypt images [SUP-1095]
  • Fixed an issue that caused a Javascript error for some Windows 10 systems [SUP-1081]
  • Resolved an issue with password not being recovered for some Excel files [SUP-1102]
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2020.1.2 (Mar 2, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Improved support for McAfee Full Disk Encryption
  • Resolved an error occurring during dictionary merge for some dictionaries
  • Resolved an issue with an incorrect number of passwords shown for the merged dictionary
  • Resolved an issue with Password Exchange not syncing new passwords
  • Reduced the time required for GPUs to start attacks for some file types
  • Resolved "Slow progress" issue for GPU acceleration for some files [SUP-1082]
  • Resolved an issue that caused GPU cards to stay idle under certain circumstances
  • Minor stability improvements of GPU acceleration [SUP-1082]
  • Improved GPU logging and performance stats [SUP-1092]
  • Resolved an error occurring while applying some patterns to the dictionary attack
  • Resolved an issue with the attack settings being reset after closing Dictionary Manager
  • Improved Windows password reset for Live ID accounts [SUP-1056]
  • Resolved an issue that prevented restarting the recovery process for APFS images after the encryption key is found [SUP-1084]
  • Minor Dictionary Manager improvements
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2020.1.1 (Feb 10, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Dictionary Manager improvements
  • Resolved occasional error in Dictionary Manager during dictionary compilation
  • Resolved "Previous passwords" attack for some PGP WDE images
  • Resolved issue with BitLocker VMK Key not being saved after Passware Kit relaunch

New in Passware Kit Business 2019.4.2 (Nov 5, 2019)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with starting the password recovery process for some file types using command line
  • Resolved an issue with BitLocker encryption detection for drives with large sector size
  • Resolved an issue with some TrueCrypt containers recovery with memory attack
  • Added support for DRM-protected MS Office files [SUP-1055]
  • Resolved a data race issue with some attacks [SUP-1063]
  • Resolved an issue that was causing a crash for some attacks for PDF files [SUP-1065]
  • Minor logging improvements
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2019.4.1 (Oct 16, 2019)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue that prevented some attacks from running normally during "Memory Analysis"
  • Improved support for VeraCrypt GPT partitions [SUP-1041]
  • Resolved multiple issues with VeraCrypt Camellia-Streebog encryption types
  • Improved support for multiple GPU cards being connected to a single PCI slot [SUP-1043]
  • Fixed an issue for certain Zip 2.0 archives
  • Resolved an issue with some jobs not being able to continue for Standalone attack [SUP-1051]
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2019.4.0 (Oct 16, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • Instant decryption of Symantec Endpoint Encryption (EPE) disks via memory image analysis
  • Support for additional VeraCrypt encryption algorithms
  • Optimized password recovery for TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt
  • Support for EnCase EX01 image files format
  • Export and import of dictionaries
  • Saving of MS Office encryption keys after memory analysis
  • Instant reset of Windows Server 2019 Domain Administrator password
  • Password recovery for Windows 10 standalone systems with LiveID
  • Saved recovery state now includes dictionaries used for recovery
  • Optimized GPU hardware acceleration for TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt recovery
  • Improved password recovery speed for Zip AES encryption
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with some TrueCrypt containers not being decrypted after successful password recovery
  • Resolved an issue with the "Clear history -> Log files” option not working for some systems
  • Resolved “A valid JSON document must be either an array or an object value” error [SUP-1035]
  • Fixed user interface being unresponsive when doing decryption for more than a thousand of documents at the same time [SUP-1045]
  • Resolved issues with TrueCrypt password recovery for passwords longer than 64 characters [SUP-1029]
  • Resolved "Empty password" error for PDF 6.0 files [SUP-1038]
  • Improved Passware Kit stability
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2019.3.3 (Aug 22, 2019)

  • Minor Attack Builder improvements
  • Resolved "Internal error" while compiling some custom dictionaries [SUP-1033]

New in Passware Kit Business 2019.3.2 (Aug 2, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • "Clear Passwords Found" option added
  • Minor GUI updates
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with Wizard setup option
  • Resolved an error with Zip archives containing large files
  • Resolved issues with FDE type detection
  • Correct message if a memory image file path is empty
  • Resolved issues with FileVault decryption [SUP-1017]
  • Chrome passwords extraction fixed
  • Import of password recovery states fixed
  • Resolved an error with .DIC file compilation [SUP-1026]

New in Passware Kit Business 2019.3.1 (Jul 8, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • Total number of passwords checked is now displayed at the end of the password recovery process [SUP-1007]
  • Minor optimizations for Keychain password recovery
  • Minor improvements of GPU acceleration
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with FileVault decrypted image being truncated [SUP-1015]
  • Resolved an issue with Russian passwords not being recovered for LUKS images
  • Resolved issue with Distributed Password Recovery for larger ZIP archives
  • Added verification process for McAfee Machine Key [SUP-998]
  • Minor GUI updates

New in Passware Kit Business 2019.3 (Jun 20, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • Protection against GPU overheating
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved possible GPU error caused by long dictionary passwords [SUP-991]
  • Resolved possible memory leak for some GPU-accelerated attacks [SUP-1001] [SUP-974]
  • Minor log system improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2019.2.2 (May 2, 2019)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with GPU cards being idle during the recovery process for some attack settings [SUP-981]
  • Resolved an issue with Passware dictionaries from older versions of Passware (*.dic) not being imported [SUP-987]
  • Resolved an issue with Wizard not saving a chosen pattern after changing the settings manually
  • Resolved an issue with some Wizard settings not being available for editing
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2019.2.0 (Apr 3, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • Password recovery for LastPass databases
  • Passwords extraction from 1Password databases
  • Instant decryption of VeraCrypt volumes for Linux
  • Export and import of password recovery state
  • Password recovery for LUKS SHA512, AES, XTS Plain64 encryption type
  • Added instant memory attack for Bitlocker ClearKey protector [SUP-951]
  • Improved support for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
  • Added ability to change Main Product Key in "License Manager"
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed crash when trying to double click the "Websites" attack
  • Resolved an issue with some TrueCrypt hidden partitions not being attacked
  • Domain Account Password Reset fails on Domain Controller

New in Passware Kit Business 2019.1.4 (Feb 12, 2019)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Added support for removable FileVault2/HFS disks
  • Added support for X-Ways E01 images [SUP-930]
  • Added a list of accounts for APFS disks decryption screen
  • Resolved an issue with some of the passwords found displayed as 0 [SUP-925]
  • Resolved an issue that caused HardwareExceptionTranslator error in batch mode [SUP-912]
  • Improved display of protector flags for BitLocker disks
  • Improved support for older versions of WinRar archives [SUP-924]
  • Improved logging

New in Passware Kit Business 2019.1.2 (Jan 10, 2019)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Added an option to attach all the logs and crash dumps before sending a Bug Report
  • Resolved an issue with sending Bug Reports failed with some email clients

New in Passware Kit Business 2019.1.1 (Dec 27, 2018)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved issue with failed APFS image decryption after a successful attack [SUP-911]
  • Minor Distributed password recovery improvements
  • Resolved issue when TACC device not being detected
  • Resolved FileVault internal error
  • Resolved minor issues with Standalone attack
  • Resolved "Unexpected end of JSON inputnSyntaxError" error
  • Resolved issue with binary dictionaries compilation
  • Resolved Wizard issues for some Brute-force attacks [SUP-910]

New in Passware Kit Business 2019.1 (Dec 17, 2018)

  • New Features:
  • GPU monitoring
  • Additional dictionaries: Rumanian, Bulgarian, Irish
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved blank screen on launch issue [SUP-903]

New in Passware Kit Business 2018.3.1 (Dec 6, 2018)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Improved support for larger encrypted partitions for VeraCrypt memory attack [SUP-882]
  • Resolved an issue with TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt attacks replacing VeraCrypt/TrueCrypt recovery states for the same disk image
  • Encrypted items are now sorted correctly after a folder is moved in Encryption Analyzer

New in Passware Kit Business 2018.3 (Nov 9, 2018)

  • New Features:
  • Support for macOS Mojave
  • Support for MS Office 2019
  • Support for QuickBooks 2019
  • Management improvements for Passware Kit Agents
  • Password recovery for Symantec Endpoint disks
  • Password recovery for 1Password OPVault and Online databases
  • Timeout setting for batch password recovery
  • Improved support for Tableau Password Recovery (TPR)
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with the application window not being updated (or getting blank) during a password recovery process
  • Resolved Encryption Analyzer issue [SUP-870]

New in Passware Kit Business 2017.5.2 (Jun 6, 2018)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Resolved GPU acceleration issue [SUP-705]

New in Passware Kit Business 2017.5.1 (Jan 26, 2018)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Resolved an issue with certain McAfee images causing the software to crash
  • Minor GUI improvements for KeePass recovery
  • Improved Unicode support for FileVault passwords
  • Resolved minor GPU issues [SUP-695], [SUP-696]

New in Passware Kit Business 2017.5.0 (Dec 14, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Password Recovery for McAfee Drive Encryption
  • Support for macOS High Sierra
  • Up to 3x faster password recovery for TrueCrypt
  • Decryption of LUKS drives
  • Bugfixes:
  • Minor GUI improvements for FileVault recovery
  • Minor GUI improvements for PDF recovery

New in Passware Kit Business 2017.4.2 (Nov 9, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Resolved an issue that prevented Linux version of Passware Agent to launch without a default gateway [SUP-679]
  • Minor improvement of FileVault 2 decryption
  • Minor improvement of Bitlocker encryption detection [SUP-678]
  • Fixed a crash that could occur in batch mode, when used for a large number of files [SUP-670]
  • Resolved OpenCL compatibility issue with older NVIDIA GPUs [SUP-668]

New in Passware Kit Business 2017.4.1 (Oct 11, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Minor fix for 1Password for Mac support
  • Minor improvements for FileVault2 file detection
  • Fixed an issue with batch recovery for a large number of files [SUP-667]
  • Fixed password recovery issue for multipart RAR 3.x-4.x archives [SUP-660]
  • Fixed OpenCL initialization issue with older NVIDIA GPUs [SUP-668]

New in Passware Kit Business 2017.4.0 (Sep 13, 2017)

  • Password recovery for DriveCrypt
  • Master password extraction for 1Password for Mac
  • Recovery of BitLocker protectors with a known password
  • Minor GUI improvements for Hard Disk Decryption
  • Support of GPU-accelerated password recovery for PDFs (encryption revision 3)
  • Increased performance of GPU-accelerated password recovery
  • Support for SHA-256 encryption for MS Office 2013

New in Passware Kit Business 2017.3.1 (Aug 4, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Improved support for FileVault images created with CoreStorage [SUP-641]

New in Passware Kit Business 2017.3.0 (Jun 22, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Decryption of BitLocker and TrueCrypt volumes after a successful password recovery attack
  • OpenCL hardware acceleration for BitLocker
  • SHA-256 is now supported for LUKS
  • Password recovery for 1Password for Windows
  • OpenCL hardware acceleration for 7-Zip archives

New in Passware Kit Business 2017.2.2 (Apr 14, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Resolved an issue with BitLocker support
  • Resolved an issue with TPR acceleration
  • Resolved minor issue with SAM password recovery
  • Resolved GPU acceleration issue for ZIP password recovery
  • Minor GPU acceleration improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2017.2.0 (Mar 16, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Password recovery for WPA/WPA2
  • Export and import of known passwords
  • Dictionaries for Estonian, Finnish, and Polish languages
  • Optimizations for hardware acceleration

New in Passware Kit Business 2017.1.2 (Feb 27, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Distributed password recovery optimizations [SUP-578]
  • Resolved an issue that prevented password recovery attack from restarting correctly [SUP-581]

New in Passware Kit Business 2017.1.0 (Dec 15, 2016)

  • Instant FileVault2 decryption using data extracted from iOS backups
  • QuickBooks 2016 and 2017 support
  • Password recovery for 1Password Vaults
  • Dictionaries for Danish and Swedish languages

New in Passware Kit Business 2016.4.0 (Sep 28, 2016)

  • Password Recovery for VeraCrypt
  • macOS Sierra support
  • 2x faster on NVIDIA GTX-1080
  • New Attack Modifier: Substitution

New in Passware Kit Business 2016.3.1 (Jun 24, 2016)

  • Password recovery for iWork documents
  • Distributed Password Recovery improvements
  • GPU acceleration improvements

New in Passware Kit Business 2016.2.0 (Mar 2, 2016)

  • Distributed Password Recovery improvements
  • GPU acceleration improvements
  • Automatic updates without user interaction

New in Passware Kit Business 2016.1.0 (Dec 9, 2015)

  • Password recovery for OpenOffice files
  • Support for shared dictionaries
  • Instant reset of Windows 10 Live ID passwords
  • Support for RTI2 tables for fast recovery of hashed passwords

New in Passware Kit Business 2015.4.0 (Oct 6, 2015)

  • Automatic updates for Passware Kit Agents
  • New Passware Kit Agent for Amazon
  • Password recovery for files from MS Office 2016 for Mac
  • Decryption of BitLocker disk images from Windows 10
  • Windows 8-10 Live ID password recovery

New in Passware Kit Business 2015.3.0 (May 15, 2015)

  • New - Hardware acceleration with TACC 2:
  • Passware Kit is the first and only password recovery software that supports the new TACC2 hadrware acceleration appliance by Guidance Software.
  • TACC2 speeds up the password recovery processes by up to 30 times for: MS Office files, PGP disk images, Zip and RAR archives, Mac Keychain, Android backups and images, Apple disk images and iTunes backups.

New in Passware Kit Business 2015.1.0 (Dec 4, 2014)

  • Password recovery for LUKS hard disk images:
  • Passware pioneers in releasing a commercial solution to recover passwords for LUKS (Linux Disk Encryption) hard disks.
  • The record speed of 300 passwords per second is achieved using GPU acceleration, which can be further enhanced with distributed computing.
  • Password recovery for KeePass Password Safe databases:
  • Passware Kit now recovers passwords for KeePass password manager, both KDB and KDBX files.
  • The password recovery process is accelerated with NVIDIA and AMD GPU cards, as well as distributed computing.
  • PGP SKR password recovery in batch mode:
  • Passware Kit now processes multiple accounts in PGP Private Keyring (SKR) files in batch mode. Different password recovery settings can be applied to each account from a single SKR file, and the passwords are recovered one-by-one.

New in Passware Kit Business 13.7 Build 9095 (Oct 3, 2014)

  • New - Decryption and password recovery for FileVault2 non-system volumes:
  • Passware Kit 13.7 decrypts FileVault2 non-system volumes, in addition to previously released decryption of FileVault2 system volumes. The FileVault2 password can be recovered without a wipekey file using regular brute-force attacks with NVIDIA and AMD GPU acceleration. Live memory analysis can also be used to decrypt FileVault2 non-system containers in a matter of minutes.
  • New - AMD GPU acceleration for TrueCrypt password recovery:
  • Password recovery for TrueCrypt containers can now be accelerated on AMD GPU cards, in addition to NVIDIA. A single AMD Radeon 7850 provides a 112-times (!) acceleration, reaching over 50,000 passwords per second. Further acceleration is possible using more GPU cards and distributed computing.
  • New - Windows password reset on UEFI systems:
  • Password recovery for Windows Administrators can now be flawlessly launched on UEFI-boot systems. It is no longer required to adjust BIOS settings to make the computer boot from the Windows password reset CD or USB disk.
  • New - Performance logs for distributed password recovery:
  • It has become easier to troubleshoot distibuted password recovery processes, as Passware Kit acquires detailed logs from both the Server and the Agents and saves them into a single archive. This archive can be submitted to Passware Support for analysis.

New in Passware Kit Business 13.5 Build 8266 (May 17, 2014)

  • Mobile Forensics: password recovery for Android v.4.4 images (Forensic edition only)
  • Instant reset of MS Windows Live ID passwords

New in Passware Kit Business 13.3 Build 8047 (Apr 5, 2014)

  • Extraction of Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks user passwords from live memory images (Forensic edition only)
  • GPU-accelerated recovery of Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks user passwords (Forensic edition only)
  • GPU-accelerated password recovery for RAR v5 archives
  • Instant decryption of QuickBooks for Mac databases
  • GPU-accelerated recovery of iPhone and iPad iOS 7.x backup passwords (Enterprise and Forensic editions only)
  • Mobile Forensics section (Forensic edition only)