Nicolas Peterson

Nick Peterson started his career in reverse-engineering with World of Warcraft at age 15. This kicked off his interest in low level internals and he began a deep dive into the x86 architecture which led him to create a functioning hobby OS by the age of 21. Drawn to the cat and mouse game frequently played between anti-cheat and cheat developers, he continued running subscription based cheat platforms until he was hired into the Anti-Cheat space by ESEA. Today, Nick finds himself doing similar low level work at Riot Games.

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Why so Spurious? How a Highly Error-Prone x86/x64 CPU Feature can be Abused to Achieve Local Privilege Escalation on Many Operating Systems