The leading cybercrime trend this year is botnets powered by compromised Internet-of-Things ( IoT ) devices according to the new report by cyber threat intelligence provider SurfWatch Labs . In 2016 , the amount of d ata collected Attack.Databreach on service interruption rose 162 % over the year prior due to cybercriminals ’ use of massive distributed-denial-of-service ( DDoS ) attacks against a popular security blog as well as hosting and domain name providers . Cybercrime incidents via the supply chain also spiked sharply this year . Threat data collected and evaluated by SurfWatch Labs shows that the percentage of cybercrime linked to third parties nearly doubled over the past year – and that only includes publicly disclosed breaches . “ The large-scale attacks we ’ ve seen this year highlight the ability of cybercriminals to continuously shift their tactics to weak links in the security chain , ” said Adam Meyer , chief security strategist , SurfWatch Labs . “ Organizations ’ cyber risks have increased due to the growing number of vulnerable devices , easy-to-guess and/or reused user credentials and supply chain cybersecurity weaknesses .