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Florida man arrested after allegedly stealing $220,000 in crypto using malware hidden in Steam Games — 8,000…

Latest from Tom's Hardware ·Luke James·2 months ago
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(Image credit: Future) Federal agents arrested 21-year-old Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins of North Lauderdale, Florida, on Tuesday and charged him with conspiracy to obtain information by computer for private financial gain, according to a 15-page criminal complaint first reported by WPLG Local 10 . The FBI alleges Wilkins helped run an operation that embedded malware in eight video games, infected around 8,000 devices, and stole at least $220,000 from roughly 80 cryptocurrency wallets between May 2024 and February 2026. Investigators put a name to the scheme by following stolen Bitcoin to more than 150 gift cards, most of them spent on Uber Eats. The complaint identifies the distribution channel only as a "popular digital distribution software company," but the games it lists, including BlockBlasters, Dashverse, Lunara , and PirateFi , match the titles named when the FBI began seeking victims of infected Steam games in March.…

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