Florida Man Charged with Stealing $200,000 in Cryptocurrency Through Steam Game Malware

A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly stealing over $220,000 in cryptocurrency through malware-infested games, according to local reports. The 21-year-old, Zyaire Wilkins, along with accomplices, is accused of deploying eight games laced with malware between May 2024 and February 2026. This scheme reportedly infected around 8,000 devices and compromised 80 crypto wallets.

While the complaint does not explicitly state that these games were uploaded to a specific platform, it is widely believed to refer to the Valve-owned service. The FBI has been seeking information from victims as part of a “Steam malware investigation” that includes titles mentioned in the lawsuit, such as BlockBlasters, Chemia, Dashverse/DashFPS, Lampy, Lunara, PirateFi, and Tokenova.

In the previous year, reports surfaced about the removal of some of these crypto-stealing games from the platform, including Blockblasters, which reportedly swindled over $150,000 from victims, including a streamer who was fundraising for cancer treatment. The lawsuit has been filed in a Washington court, where Valve is headquartered, but the company has not yet commented on the situation.

The complaint details how Wilkins and his co-conspirators promoted the malware-laden games on social media and messaging platforms like Discord, Telegram, X / Twitter, and LinkedIn, urging users to download them. Authorities claim that the malware was then used to steal personal information and drain victims’ crypto wallets.

Federal agents connected Wilkins to the case after discovering his crypto wallet address in communications with an alleged accomplice. They traced this address to an account on Bitrefill, a platform where users can buy gift cards with cryptocurrency. This account, linked to Wilkins, had purchased over 150 gift cards, including ones for Uber Eats, which helped authorities identify his phone number and ultimately his address.

Wilkins was arrested on July 14 and faces charges of conspiracy to obtain information via computer for personal financial gain.