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The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old Florida resident, recognized as Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins, for allegedly distributing malware embedded in a sequence of Steam video games to roughly 8,000 PCs. Arrested final week, Wilkins—alongside two unnamed co-conspirators—is accused of utilizing the personal data stolen from these contaminated computer systems to steal over $200,000 in cryptocurrency.
According to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI (through Techspot), Wilkins and his associates inspired social media customers to obtain their malware-laden video games on Discord, Telegram, X, and LinkedIn, whereas additionally using chatbots to determine and prioritize “individuals with large cryptocurrency holdings.”
The FBI does not title Steam within the doc, however refers back to the weaponized video games as being “available for download on a popular digital distribution software company for videogames located in the Western District of Washington,” and the video games it says have been used for distributing malware—Dashverse (2024), Lunara (2024), PirateFi (2025), Blockblasters (2025), and Lampy (2026)—had all been beforehand named in its March 2026 call for information from users who had downloaded malicious software through Steam.
According to the FBI, it was able to identify Wilkins when Google cookie records indicated that the email address tied to one of the co-conspirators’ Steam developer accounts was accessed through the same devices and web browsers used by a cluster of other Google addresses, which were themselves associated with Apple and T-Mobile accounts.
After obtaining a search warrant for the address associated with those Apple and T-Mobile accounts, the FBI seized a number of devices from the premises in February 2026, one of which allegedly contained records of messages coordinating the Steam malware scheme and Bitcoin payments sent from the co-conspirator to a Signal user named “Sibel.eth.”
Sibel.eth was identified as Wilkins when investigators found that the Bitcoin wallet which received those payments was used to purchase over 150 gift cards, some of which were used for UberEats orders allegedly linked to Wilkins’ University of West Florida student email address.
The FBI doesn’t identify the co-conspirator, who allegedly wrote the malware embedded within the weaponized Steam games. During the two years in which the co-conspirators distributed malware on the platform, the FBI says they gained access to roughly 80 cryptocurrency wallets, from which they stole at least $220,000—an amount which includes $35,000 stolen from streamer RastalandTV that he’d raised to pay for his stage 4 cancer treatments.
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