diff --git a/lib/core/enums.py b/lib/core/enums.py
index a22e20207..7e7d27a40 100644
--- a/lib/core/enums.py
+++ b/lib/core/enums.py
@@ -121,9 +121,10 @@ class HASH:
     ORACLE_OLD = r'(?i)\A[01-9a-f]{16}\Z'
     MD5_GENERIC = r'(?i)\A[0-9a-f]{32}\Z'
     SHA1_GENERIC = r'(?i)\A[0-9a-f]{40}\Z'
-    SHA224_GENERIC = r'(?i)\A[0-9a-f]{28}\Z'
-    SHA384_GENERIC = r'(?i)\A[0-9a-f]{48}\Z'
-    SHA512_GENERIC = r'(?i)\A[0-9a-f]{64}\Z'
+    SHA224_GENERIC = r'(?i)\A[0-9a-f]{56}\Z'
+    SHA256_GENERIC = r'(?i)\A[0-9a-f]{64}\Z'
+    SHA384_GENERIC = r'(?i)\A[0-9a-f]{96}\Z'
+    SHA512_GENERIC = r'(?i)\A[0-9a-f]{128}\Z'
     CRYPT_GENERIC = r'\A(?!\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\Z)(?![0-9]+\Z)[./0-9A-Za-z]{13}\Z'
     JOOMLA = r'\A[0-9a-f]{32}:\w{32}\Z'
     WORDPRESS = r'\A\$P\$[./0-9a-zA-Z]{31}\Z'
diff --git a/lib/utils/hash.py b/lib/utils/hash.py
index 8521a0957..7aa058ff9 100644
--- a/lib/utils/hash.py
+++ b/lib/utils/hash.py
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import zipfile
 from hashlib import md5
 from hashlib import sha1
 from hashlib import sha224
+from hashlib import sha256
 from hashlib import sha384
 from hashlib import sha512
 from Queue import Queue
@@ -272,6 +273,16 @@ def sha224_generic_passwd(password, uppercase=False):
 
     return retVal.upper() if uppercase else retVal.lower()
 
+def sha256_generic_passwd(password, uppercase=False):
+    """
+    >>> sha256_generic_passwd(password='testpass', uppercase=False)
+    '13d249f2cb4127b40cfa757866850278793f814ded3c587fe5889e889a7a9f6c'
+    """
+
+    retVal = sha256(password).hexdigest()
+
+    return retVal.upper() if uppercase else retVal.lower()
+
 def sha384_generic_passwd(password, uppercase=False):
     """
     >>> sha384_generic_passwd(password='testpass', uppercase=False)
@@ -455,6 +466,7 @@ __functions__ = {
                     HASH.MD5_GENERIC: md5_generic_passwd,
                     HASH.SHA1_GENERIC: sha1_generic_passwd,
                     HASH.SHA224_GENERIC: sha224_generic_passwd,
+                    HASH.SHA256_GENERIC: sha256_generic_passwd,
                     HASH.SHA384_GENERIC: sha384_generic_passwd,
                     HASH.SHA512_GENERIC: sha512_generic_passwd,
                     HASH.CRYPT_GENERIC: crypt_generic_passwd,
@@ -911,7 +923,8 @@ def dictionaryAttack(attack_dict):
             if user and not user.startswith(DUMMY_USER_PREFIX):
                 custom_wordlist.append(normalizeUnicode(user))
 
-        if hash_regex in (HASH.MYSQL, HASH.MYSQL_OLD, HASH.MD5_GENERIC, HASH.SHA1_GENERIC, HASH.APACHE_SHA1):
+        # Algorithms without extra arguments (e.g. salt and/or username)
+        if hash_regex in (HASH.MYSQL, HASH.MYSQL_OLD, HASH.MD5_GENERIC, HASH.SHA1_GENERIC, HASH.SHA224_GENERIC, HASH.SHA256_GENERIC, HASH.SHA384_GENERIC, HASH.SHA512_GENERIC, HASH.APACHE_SHA1):
             for suffix in suffix_list:
                 if not attack_info or processException:
                     break