FBI arrests Florida man who hid malware in Steam games and blew the stolen crypto on UberEats gift cards

The FBI has arrested 21-year-old Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins of Florida, accusing him of distributing malware through a string of Steam games that infected around 8,000 PCs and netted over $220,000 in stolen cryptocurrency. He was taken into custody last week alongside two unnamed co-conspirators.

Wilkins and his associates allegedly pushed the malware-laden games through Discord, Telegram, X, and LinkedIn, and even deployed chatbots to scout out and prioritize targets with large crypto holdings. The FBI's complaint doesn't name Steam directly, but describes the platform as a "popular digital distribution software company for videogames located in the Western District of Washington" — and the games named in the complaint, Dashverse, Lunara, PirateFi, Blockblasters, and Lampy, were all flagged in the FBI's March 2026 public call for information about malicious Steam software. Over roughly two years, the scheme compromised around 80 cryptocurrency wallets. Among the victims was streamer RastalandTV, who lost $35,000 he had crowdfunded to cover his stage 4 cancer treatments.

Investigators cracked the case through a chain of digital breadcrumbs. Google cookie records tied a co-conspirator's Steam developer account email to a cluster of devices and browsers also linked to Apple and T-Mobile accounts. A search warrant on that address in February 2026 turned up devices containing messages coordinating the scheme and Bitcoin payments sent to a Signal user called "Sibel.eth." That handle was traced back to Wilkins when the receiving Bitcoin wallet was found to have purchased over 150 gift cards — some of which were used for UberEats orders tied directly to Wilkins' University of West Florida student email address.

The FBI has not identified the co-conspirator who allegedly wrote the malware itself. The case is a stark reminder that even small operational slips — reusing devices, linking personal accounts, buying traceable gift cards — can unravel an otherwise technically sophisticated scheme. No trial date has been announced.