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Gulf Weekly
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gulf Weekly
A lesson in love
Greek-Welsh singer and songwriter Marina Diamandis aka Marina is set to drop her sixth album Princess of Power tomorrow, June 6. According to the 39-year-old artist, the 13-track album – which she described as 'freeing' to work on – is about loving her inner self, reflecting on ageing in the pop industry, finding one's voice and challenging patriarchal oppression. The body of work is expected to feature an upbeat and energetic pop-oriented sound. 'We are meeting a Marina who is not guarding her heart so much anymore,' the artist said in an interview. 'I think part of why this album has felt so freeing is that I think I've really dove into my fear of love. That's why, for me, it's so powerful that this superheroine's biggest power is love. The album is about teaching yourself – or re-teaching yourself how to love,' she added. Princess of Power marks the creative talent's first self-released project since her extended plays Mermaid vs Sailor (2007) and Froot Acoustic (2015), following her departure from Atlantic Records and starting her independent label Queenie Records. Previously known by her stage name 'Marina and the Diamonds', the musician embarked on her career in 2005 and rose to fame for her song I Am Not A Robot off her debut album The Family Jewels (2010). She garnered even more attention following the release of her 2012 studio album Electra Heart, which received mixed reviews from music critics but was favoured and uplifted by Marina's dedicated audience. It eventually earned the status of a cult classic, with Rolling Stone magazine listing it among the 50 greatest concept albums of all time in 2022. Marina's style consists of a combination of pop subgenres, including art pop and electropop, and she is known mainly for her mezzo-soprano vocal ability.
Forbes
05-05-2025
- Forbes
Google Issues New Windows Captcha Security Alert — Don't Be Fooled
Beware the fake Captcha attacks. getty When it comes to malware, high on the list of the most dangerous, and certainly amongst the most prolific, is the infostealer. If you've ever wondered what was behind headlines such as 19 billion compromised passwords published online or one million Windows devices infected, that's infostealer malware. The Lumma stealer family is, almost certainly, the most virulent, deploying thousands of fake 'I Am Not A Robot' captcha lures. Google has now issued a warning about the Lummac.V2 infostealer malware threat. Here's what you need to know. When it comes to infostealer malware, the likes of which come after your passwords, 2FA codes that are meant to add an extra layer of protection against attack, as well as everything from browser information to email databases, there is no bigger threat than Lumma Stealer. Other than, perhaps, the less tongue-friendly Lummac.V2 reworking of the Lummac malware that, itself, is a variant of Lumma Stealer. A Google Cloud Security report by Praveeth Dsouza, a Google security analyst, and Tommy Dacanay, a senior security analyst of threat hunting at Google, has warned that Lummac.V2 targets everything from browsers and crypto wallets, through password managers and Remote Desktop applications, to email platforms and instant messaging apps. A part of the Google Security 'Finding Malware' series, the report takes a deep technical dive into the emerging threat that Lummac.V2 presents. It is, in fairness, far too technical to go into detail here, so I would heartily recommend those of a more advanced technical bent to go read the whole thing. The TL;DR, however, is that Lummac.V2 steals 'credentials, logins, emails, personal and system details, screenshots, and cookies,' according to the report. It accomplishes this by using the ClickFix method of social engineering, which employs fake captcha verification pages to execute malicious commands via the Windows run dialog. I've said it before, and I'm saying it again now: if a captcha asks you to open a Windows run dialog and enter commands, run for the hills. This is not normal behavior, and there's no reason on earth why a captcha verification should ask you to do such a thing. The Google report is an excellent reminder of how prevalent these threats are, but a little common sense goes a long way in keeping them at arm's length.
