The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old Florida resident, identified as Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins, for allegedly distributing malware embedded in a series of Steam games to approximately 8,000 PCs. Arrested last week, Wilkins—alongside two unnamed co-conspirators—is accused of using the private information stolen from those infected computers to steal over $200,000 in cryptocurrency.
According to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI (via Techspot), Wilkins and his associates encouraged social media users to download their malware-laden games on Discord, Telegram, X, and LinkedIn, while also employing chatbots to identify and prioritize “individuals with large cryptocurrency holdings.”
The FBI doesn’t name Steam in the document, but refers to the weaponized games as being “available for download on a popular digital distribution software company for videogames located in the Western District of Washington,” and the games it says were used for distributing malware—Dashverse (2024), Lunara (2024), PirateFi (2025), Blockblasters (2025), and Lampy (2026)—had all been previously 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.