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A 21-year-old Florida man allegedly hid crypto-stealing malware inside Steam games, robbed thousands of players, and got caught over his Uber Eats orders.
Federal agents arrested Zyaire Wilkins of North Lauderdale on Tuesday and accused him of helping run a scheme that put infected games online and quietly emptied players’ crypto wallets. The FBI says the games looked completely normal, which is exactly why so many people downloaded them.
How the scam worked
As reported by Local10, Wilkins and others launched eight infected games between May 2024 and February 2026, and reached around 8,000 devices and stealing at least $220,000 in crypto.
They pushed the games on Discord, Telegram, X, and LinkedIn, and used bots to find people holding a lot of crypto and nudge them into downloading. Once a game was installed, it grabbed the player’s private data and passwords, which the group then used to break into wallets.
What tripped him up was Uber Eats. Agents followed the stolen crypto to a service that sells gift cards, found more than 150 of them bought mostly for food delivery, and asked Uber where the orders went.
The deliveries led straight to Wilkins’ home and his college addresses. This looks like the first arrest from an FBI investigation that went public in March, when the bureau asked affected players to come forward.
It follows the September case where malware in a Steam game drained a streamer raising money for his cancer treatment, part of a wider run of Steam scares that recently saw hackers hide malware in Wallpaper Engine downloads. As for Wilkins, he will be facing up to 10 years in prison.
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