Hacker Uses Google Search Ad for Hyperliquid to Phish Users, Causing About $550,000 in Losses According to DarcyAri, a hacker used a Google sponsored ad for “Hyperliquid” to lure users into a phishing site, resulting in a Google Search paid-ad phishing attack that has caused approximately $550,000 in asset losses. Security researchers urged users to carefully verify URLs and avoid accessing sites through “Sponsored” or “Ad” links in search results, recommending official channels or direct access via manually entered URLs or bookmarks.

Hackers are increasingly targeting America's water systems. Over the last two weeks, cyberattacks have affected dozens of municipal water facilities, including at least 30 in Minnesota and nine in Michigan. The attacks came days after federal agencies renewed warnings about Iranian cyber threats targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. Here's what you need to know about the cyberattacks on U.S. water systems in less than a minute.

Hacken was built to make Web3 a safer place. Nine years in, that mission looks very different from where it started. It started with whether code holding digital assets was secure. That question has not gone away. But now it’s a part of a much more complex list of requirements: governance, cybersecurity, continuous monitoring, and regulatory compliance across dozens of articles at once. The reason requirements grew is visible in where the institutional capital is pointing. Major banks and consultancies project that blockchain will become a structural layer of public financial markets. They also name that barriers to broader adoption are trust and regulatory clarity, rather than technology. That alone signals how much has changed: the crypto of 2017 and the digital asset industry of 2026 are not the same thing. Hacken's solutions have expanded with each new requirement the market placed on digital assets: from smart contract audits in 2018 to establishing institutional trust with solutions for licensing, market entry, AI, resilience frameworks, CORE3 risk intelligence, crypto yield audit, and risk score today. More than 2,000 blockchain entities have gone through that process with us. Nine years later, the architecture of trust in digital assets is still being built. This piece is our read on where it goes next 👉

Hackers stole around $3 million from Polymarket users after compromising one of the company’s third-party vendors in a supply-chain attack. The attackers injected a malicious script into part of Polymarket’s website. When some users visited the site, they were tricked into approving fake crypto transactions, allowing the hackers to steal funds from their wallets. Polymarket says the attack has been stopped, the compromised third-party software has been removed, and every affected user will receive a full refund.