Unsecurity Episode 256: Annual Breachmas Recap with Pinky
From UNSECURITY: Information Security Podcast by The InfoSec Mission
March 12, 2026 · 31 min · Episode 256
About this episode
The episode discusses the annual 'Breachmas' phenomenon and its implications for cybersecurity with insights from Pinky, FRSecure's Incident Response Manager.
The Unsecurity Podcast is back for our annual discussion with Pinky, FRSecure's Incident Response Manager, to discuss the "Breachmas" season. Breachmas is a time of year or a phenomenon when attackers pull a few more levers available to them—more people on PTO, increased online spending, and general busyness contributing to less focus. The result is an uptick in cyber incidents nearing the end of each calendar year. As the team lead of FRSecure's blue team, Pinky lives and breathes incident handling. Each year, we like to get his perspective on how Breachmas has changed or evolved to stay better informed on how to protect our clients (and ourselves). This is a reflection of what we saw at year-end 2025, along with suggestions moving forward! In this episode, learn about: Resurgence of Ransomware Importance of Conditional Access Taking a Layered Approach to Security Tools Logs, Baselining, and Anomaly Detection EvilGinx and Token Theft Attacks New This Year: Extortion and AI Like, subscribe, and share with your network to stay informed about the latest in cyber and information security! We want to hear from you! Reach out at unsecurity@frsecure.com and follow us for more…
People in this episode
Guest: Pinky
Topics covered
- Breachmas
- cyber incidents
- ransomware
- conditional access
- security tools
- anomaly detection
- token theft attacks
- AI in security
Keywords
- incident handling
- cybersecurity
- FRSecure
- blue team
Mentioned in this episode
Products: FRSecure
Books & works: Unsecurity
Places: Minneapolis, MN
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