Since November 2022—when ChatGPT launched—phishing has transformed from a labor-intensive attack vector into an industrialized threat operating at unprecedented scale. The statistics are staggering: researchers report a 1,265% to 4,151% increase in phishing emails since ChatGPT’s release, with AI-generated campaigns achieving a 54% click-through rate compared to just 12% for traditional attacks. What once took a skilled attacker 16 hours to craft now takes an AI system five minutes. The phishing landscape hasn’t merely evolved; it has been fundamentally restructured by artificial intelligence.
A practical guide to understanding CMMC compliance and building a System Security Plan with limited IT staff and budget.
Why CMMC Matters for Small Business What is CMMC? Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is the Department of Defense’s way of verifying that contractors protecting sensitive defense information have their security house in order. It’s not optional if you work with the DoD—it’s a requirement.
If your small business:
Sells to the Department of Defense Works as a subcontractor on DoD projects Handles Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Competes for federal contracts over $150,000 …you need CMMC compliance.
Claude Mythos & Capybara: A Comprehensive Research Report Research compiled 2026-03-28
Abstract On March 26–27, 2026, Anthropic accidentally exposed approximately 3,000 unpublished internal assets through a misconfigured content management system, inadvertently revealing the existence of its next-generation AI model: Claude Mythos. The model operates under a new tier designation called Capybara — the first tier above Opus in Anthropic’s product hierarchy. Anthropic has confirmed the leak and acknowledged that Mythos has completed training, describing it as “by far the most powerful AI model we’ve ever developed” and a genuine “step change” in AI capability.
Mental Model A skill is a Markdown file that extends Claude’s behavior. Think of it as a persistent instruction set Claude loads on demand — not a script that runs automatically, but a detailed playbook Claude reads and follows when the right task comes up.
How Claude finds and loads skills:
At session start, Claude scans all registered skill directories and loads only each skill’s name and description (the frontmatter). Full content is not loaded yet.