Yuriy Bulygin, Andrew Furtak, Oleksandr Bazhaniuk, John Loucaides from Intel Security, Corey Kallenberg, Xeno Kovah, John Butterworth, Sam Cornwell
This is a joint nomination for researchers from Intel and MITRE who presented Secure Boot bypasses from kernel mode in 2013 and followed it up with multiple attacks from user mode in 2014.