So what is on the horizon for 2016? Most experts expect to see continued growth in mobile malware and even more security breaches, especially in the health care and financial industries.
Cloud Malware
Malware will target the cloud.
It is only a matter of time until the cloud becomes the latest target of malware, and Tom Byrnes, CEO of ThreatSTOP, thinks this is the year it will happen. Cloud-targeted malware will compromise the computing power of the cloud, infrastructure, apps and data. Although malware has traditionally targeted endpoints, Byrnes said as we move more information and computing power to the cloud, endpoints and mobile devices will become "dumb terminals" and the cloud will be an increasingly attractive target.