The notorious Florida man, a person beyond description or definition, is at it again, and instead of doing unfathomable stuff around the Everglades, he’s involved in a crypto scam enabled by an infected Steam game.
As The Verge reports, Florida resident Zyaire Wilkins, 21, has been arrested alongside several others under accusations of stealing over $220,000 through eight games that were infected with malware and distributed on the platform between May 2024 and February 2026. These games made over 8,000 devices vulnerable, allowing Wilkins and co-conspirators to infiltrate 80 cryptocurrency wallets.
The Verge explains that Steam is not mentioned by name in the report, but the games that are listed are directly related to the FBI’s investigation into malware-infected Steam games that we covered in March this year. That agency asked the public for any information it had on eight Steam games that were suspected to be loaded with viruses, most of which were taken down by Valve by the time our article went live back then.
One of the games, Lampy, was still available on Steam in March but seems to have been delisted by Valve or its creator at some point between then and now.
BlockBlasters alone, which was also in the FBI’s public call for information, apparently wound up stealing over $150,000 in crypto from infected users. While hosted on Steam, it seems the games were also distributed through Telegram, X, and Discord, as both this report and our own March coverage indicated.
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