Hey, thanks for tuning in to another episode of Unlimited Hangout.

I'm your host, Whitney Webb.

For the past several years, warnings about a damaging cyberattack that will cripple critical

systems around the world have been steadily growing before becoming much more frequent

in the past year or so.

Part of this may be due to the focus of the World Economic Forum and its founder,

Klaus Schwab, on the inevitability of such an event, a scene in their simulation last year

entitled Cyber Polygon 2020.

At last year's event, Schwab had ominously warned that a devastating cyberattack was not

only in the cards, but that it would make the COVID-19 crisis look like a, quote, small

disturbance, unquote, by comparison.

Since then, the World Economic Forum has been involved in the creation of various reports

and conjunction with the dominant players in the financial sector, including Wall Street

Banks, Central Banks, Swift, and others that suggest this coming cyberattack will explicitly

target supply chains and third-party providers of critical services.

They further argue that those responsible for the attack will include at least one nation-state,

both only U.S. adversaries listed as possibilities, that the attack will start off small in one

part of the world and then crescendo into a global catastrophe, and that ransomware will

be the most likely type of attack used to either instigate the event or deal the mortal blow.

But even without a cyberattack, supply chains globally are already buckling with warnings

just this week that supply chains are, quote, imploding along with recent statements from

some of the largest companies in the world that prices are set to creep up for everything

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