If you receive an email resembling a familiar email format and address and saying the Covid-19 pandemic assistance fund would be released today, and it asks you to log on through a link to know more about the fund’s computation, what would you do?

Such emails have regrettably become common. In recent years, we have seen a sharp increase in the number of cyberattacks that caused exponential financial losses for and inordinate reputational damage to the high-profile individuals, governments, financial institutions and other organizations they targeted.