IBM X-Force researchers monitor 35 billion security events per day for over 4,500 companies in 133 countries. In the first 3 months of 2016, more than $209 million in ransomware payments was paid in the U.S. This puts ransomware on pace to become a $1 billion market for cybercriminals in 2016. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the emerging third wave in the development of the internet, with 5.5 million devices go online every day, and 1 million new IoT devices will be sold every hour by 2021.”]
Source: https://securityintelligence.com/year-in-review-top-three-cybercrime-threats-of-2016/