Head Mare: A Geopolitical & Cybersecurity Analysis

Head Mare is a hacktivist group conducting targeted cyber operations against Russian and Belarusian organizations, deploying sophisticated phishing, multiple malware families (including LockBit and Babuk ransomware), exploiting known vulnerabilities (e.g., CVE-2023-38831), using the Sliver C2 framework, and leveraging credential theft tools like Mimikatz; the report includes persistence/evasion TTPs, mitigation recommendations, and numerous IOCs (SHA-256 hashes, IPs, and URLs).