Nick / ck0i

Windows internals.Behavioral security.

Security researcher and systems programmer.
Windows internals, behavioral detection, low-level systems.

Security research and production engineering across the Windows stack.

Current work covers kernel drivers, reverse engineering, anti-cheat systems, behavioral detection, and real-time graphics.

The portfolio includes published research, production products, and open-source libraries.

Abstract and introduction sections from Kinematic Features Are All You Need

EER ≤ 0.001 / 43,216 human trials

Synthetic mouse detection.

Kinematic Features Are All You Need evaluates synthetic mouse trajectories under white-box adversarial optimization.

The 17-feature detector reaches EER ≤ 0.001 and retains separation after five optimization rounds.

Research details

Selected work.

Systems, products, and research. Each link points to a live project or published result.

  1. 01 Argus A process-identity flaw in Microsoft Defender's KSLD driver that exposes privileged kernel memory operations. Kernel research
  2. 02 Reweave A commercial service for transforming and hardening PE binaries with symbol-aware protections. Binary protection
  3. 03 Kernelcloak Header-only C++17 obfuscation and integrity primitives built for Windows kernel constraints. Open source
  4. 04 wraith-rs Safe Rust abstractions for Windows process internals, syscalls, scanning, and hook detection. Open source
Patrick Star stepping out of a puddle

Background.

Programming began at age twelve. Current work spans malware analysis, drivers, behavioral security, and real-time systems.

About Nick