6) The volume of spam, particularly bandwidth-eating image spam, will continue to increase.

7) The popularity of video-sharing on the Web makes it inevitable that hackers will target MPEG files as a way of distributing malicious code.

8) Mobile-phone attacks will become more prevalent as mobile devices become 'smarter' and more connected.

9) Adware will go mainstream, following the increase in commercial Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs).

10) Parasitic malware that modifies existing files on a disk will make a comeback.