Russia is probably behind the recent global ransomware hacking attack due to its connection to the cybergang that is suspected of having perpetrated it, according to Robert Mendick of the Telegraph. He writes that Shadow Brokers, the group in question, was linked to the Russian government by Edward Snowden in 2016. In April, they communicated that they had successfully acquired hacking tools by the NSA, which were used in the recent attack. Mendick implies that Shadow Brokers launched the hacking campaign in response to the recent US missile strike on Syria, suggesting that the Russian government organized it.