Cyber Security Experts have predicted cyber crime future in 2015, these attacks range from healthcare hacks to state-sponsored cyber crimes to social media.

Cyber Criminals have increased their activity in last few years and cyber wars not ending soon in future ahead. So, will the new year a "Happy New Year" for the internet users? The cyber security experts don't think so.

A lots of cyber security companies around world are predicting the future of cyber crime in 2015 and the companies mainly involved in the predictions are: Kaspersky, WebSense, KPMG, Adaptive Mobile, BAE Systems, Cyber Defence Intelligence.

Predicted Attacks and Spams

With the increase in sharing and activities of users online, the danger of getting attacked is also increasing. The vulnerabilities for attacking the users and stealing their personal information's like passwords, data etc are also on boost. According to Stphen Bonner from KPMG, "It is possible that users willingness to shop and share online will let the criminals become more selective about who they are going to attack."

According to the security experts there will be a lot of increase in the mail spam in year 2015.

Cyber criminals upping their game are perfecting their campaign abilities previously associated only with advanced, targeted attacks. These advanced tactics designed to evade most modern email security solutions are quickly becoming the new norm as more sophisticated email threats increase. They also said that the spam which are detectable by the spam box are decreasing and there is increase in the amount of spam which are being received in the Inbox, due to incapability of detection of Cloud scrubbing according to WebSense.

"Cyber crimes have increased due to increase of active attackers, and also due to lack of knowledge of cyber attacks in the mass. There is a vast increase in mail spam and malware through which a lot of people are sharing their personal information with the attackers. So, there must be proper knowledge among internet users about cyber attacks," Cyber Defence Intelligence explained.

Health Care and Banking Companies Under threat

The cyber security experts have predicted that there would be a great threat on the bigger companies like the health and banking companies in upcoming years. These attacks can be affecting the public and private sector.

Cyber Criminals will be going after the bigger targets and financial companies as the profit in attacking these companies is much higher than the small home users.

If these companies are lacking the two-factor authentication processes and the chip and pin technology in the security, there will be a chance of growing financial threats in upcoming years.

The other major target after the banking and financial field will be health. Because the health companies are carrying a lot of users personal data and if attackers are able to attack these sectors there will be surely a lot of harm to personal information of users.

Most Common Malware Trending: Ransomware

The malware which was most commonly used in 2014 was the "Ransomware",this malware includes cyber criminals trying to steal money from the victims of the attack by locking their devices and then demanding them to pay a fee to release them. Thus there must be awareness among the users that never open such spam malwares or links that are send anonymously.

Other Hot Fields For Cyber Crimes

The other fields like mobile payments are also under threat of getting attacked because as Apple recently launched the mobile payment services, so the attackers must surely have their eyes on this and would be trying to crack this. Mobile Malwares are also becoming a lot common.

The other thing that can be attacked are the open source codes. In 2014 two major vulnerabilities were fund- ShellShock and Heartbleed that had provided the major threat in the open source codes.

Also there would surely be increase in the cyber crimes in through social media. Everyday a lots of social media profiles are being attacked by the attackers and are easily able to get the personal information of the users.

There were a lots of major attacks that took place in this year 2014, check out the 5 major cyber attacks in 2014.

How should I prevent myself from Cyber attacks?

This must be question in your mind at the moment after reading the above article. The one of the major step that can be used to prevent yourself from cyber crime is awareness. If you are aware of the different aspects by which you can attacked, you surely can prevent yourself from cyber attacks. And for the companies, you must have a proper security audit of your company on regular basis so as to prevent you and your business from any kind of major loss.