The FBI arrested a 21-year-old man who spent the money he obtained in an extremely traceable manner.

Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins, a 21-year-old Florida resident, was arrested for allegedly distributing malware embedded in a series of Steam games to approximately 8,000 computers. Wilkins and two unnamed accomplices were arrested last week. They are accused of stealing more than $200,000 worth of cryptocurrency using personal data stolen from the infected computers. According to the FBI’s indictment, Wilkins and his accomplices used chatbots to identify and target individuals who held significant amounts of cryptocurrency, encouraging them on Discord, Telegram, Twitter, and LinkedIn to download games infected with the malware.

While the FBI does not mention Steam by name in the document, it refers to the malicious games as being available for download from a popular digital distribution software company that specializes in video games and is located in Washington’s Western District. According to the indictment, the following games were used to distribute the malicious software: Dashverse (2024), Lunara (2024), PirateFi (2025), Blockblasters (2025), and Lampy (2026). These games were previously mentioned in the March 2026 notice requesting information from users who had downloaded malware via Steam.

According to the FBI, Wilkins’s identity was confirmed when Google cookie data showed that an email address linked to one of his accomplices’ Steam developer accounts was accessed from the same devices and browsers used for other Google accounts. These Google accounts were associated with Apple and T-Mobile accounts. After obtaining a search warrant for the address associated with the Apple and T-Mobile accounts, the FBI seized several devices from the location in February 2026. One of the devices allegedly contained messages used to coordinate the Steam malware scam, as well as Bitcoin payments sent by the accomplice to a Signal user named Sibel.eth.

Investigators identified Sibel.eth as Wilkins when they discovered that the Bitcoin wallet receiving the payments had been used to purchase more than 150 gift cards. Some of these cards were used for Uber Eats orders allegedly linked to Wilkins’s West Florida college student email address. The FBI is not disclosing the identity of the accomplice who allegedly wrote the malware embedded in the Steam games used as a delivery mechanism. According to the FBI, during the two years that the accomplices distributed malware on the platform, they gained access to approximately 80 cryptocurrency wallets and stole at least $220,000 from them. This sum includes the $35,000 stolen from RastalandTV, a streamer who had raised the funds to pay for his stage 4 cancer treatment.

Source: PCGamer, DocumentCloud