A Florida man has been arrested for stealing over $200,000 in cryptocurrency using Steam gaming malware.

Federal authorities have arrested a Florida man suspected of stealing at least $220,000 in cryptocurrency through malware-infected Steam games, as previously reported. By local news outlet Local10. in ComplaintOfficials accuse 21-year-old Zyaire Wilkins and his co-conspirators of launching eight games embedded with malware from approximately May 2024 to February 2026, allowing them to infect approximately 8,000 devices and gain access to 80 cryptocurrency wallets.

Although the complaint does not specifically mention that the games were uploaded to Steam, it likely refers to the Valve-owned gaming platform. As he pointed out Local10the The FBI issued a call for information about the victims In the “Steam Malware Investigation,” which includes the games listed in the lawsuit, including BlockBlasters, chemistry, dashverse/dashfps, Lamps, month, PirateFiand Tokinova.

last year, Several ports Also mentioned Regarding Steam removing some cryptocurrency stealing games, e.g Blockblasters, Which took more than $150,000 from the victimsincluding a streamer raising money for cancer treatment. The lawsuit is also being filed in a court in Washington, where Valve is based. Valve did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The complaint alleges that Wilkins and co-conspirators “marketed video games embedded with malware on social media and messaging platforms, such as Discord, Telegram, X/Twitter, and LinkedIn, and encouraged others to download the games.” From there, authorities allege, the conspirators used the malware to steal their victims’ private information and drain their cryptocurrency wallets.

Federal agents linked Wilkins to the case after obtaining his encrypted wallet address in messages with an alleged co-conspirator. They traced the cryptocurrency address to an account on Bitrefill, a site where users can purchase gift cards with cryptocurrencies. The account linked to Wilkins purchased more than 150 gift cards, including Uber Eats, which authorities used to reveal his phone number and, eventually, his address.

Wilkins was arrested on July 14 and charged with conspiracy to obtain information by computer for private financial gain.