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According to a 15-page criminal complaint, Wilkins allegedly financed and marketed malware embedded in eight video games distributed through what the complaint calls a \"popular digital distribution software company\" — the games listed match titles the FBI flagged on Steam in March. The scheme infected around 8,000 devices and drained at least $220,000 from roughly 80 cryptocurrency wallets between May 2024 and February 2026. Wilkins was scheduled to appear in Fort Lauderdale federal court on July 15 and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.\n\nThe case is prosecuted in Seattle, near Valve's Bellevue headquarters, and Wilkins is the first person publicly charged in the investigation — meaning the developer who actually wrote the malware remains unnamed and uncharged. That gap matters: Signal chats seized from the developer's home allegedly tied Wilkins, using the handle Sibel.eth, to a $10,000 remote access trojan purchase, but the engineer behind the code is still loose. Investigators traced the stolen funds to Bitrefill gift cards, most redeemed on Uber Eats and matched by subpoena to deliveries at Wilkins' family home and his university address.\n\nValve's platform has now logged a steady run of malware incidents — including the Chemia Early Access title that shipped with three distinct strains — and the company hadn't commented as of publication. At some point, \"we didn't know\" stops being a defense and starts sounding like a policy choice.","[\"security\",\"cryptocurrency\",\"steam\",\"malware\"]","2026-07-17T14:43:21.000Z","2026-07-17T15:09:44.711Z","2026-07-17T15:09:47.489Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The article states gift cards were traced via Bitrefill to Uber Eats deliveries at Wilkins' addresses, but omits that investigators matched them to a specific Uber account with deliveries at his family home and his University of West Florida addresses — a concrete detail that strengthens the chain of evidence and should be included; additionally, Valve 'hadn't responded to a request for comment as of publication' per the source, but the article states Valve has operated 'without much public acco","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"The dek states the scheme 'got caught by a trail of Uber Eats gift cards' but omits that Wilkins faces up to 10 years in prison and was scheduled to appear in Fort Lauderdale federal court on July 15 — a concrete outcome detail the body also fails to mention, leaving readers without the legal stakes that are standard closure for a federal arrest story.","security",[34,36,37,38],"cryptocurrency","steam","malware",[40],{"name":41,"url":42},"Tom's Hardware","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tomshardware.com\u002Ftech-industry\u002Fcyber-security\u002Ffbi-arrests-florida-man-in-steam-malware-investigaton-after-tracing-stolen-bitcoin-to-uber-eats-gift-cards",0,{"sections":45},[46,51,55,60,65,70,75,80,85,90,95,100,105,110],{"name":47,"slug":48,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"AI","ai",2601,"2026-07-17T17:00:27.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":34,"count":53,"latest_published_at":54},"Security",314,"2026-07-17T18:44:13.000Z",{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Policy","policy",167,"2026-07-17T14:53:59.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":69},"Hardware","hardware",126,"2026-07-16T20:09:48.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",94,"2026-07-16T16:29:46.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Software","software",72,"2026-07-17T09:42:05.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Science","science",66,"2026-07-10T10:29:37.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",60,"2026-07-16T16:59:13.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":92,"count":93,"latest_published_at":94},"Startups","startups",42,"2026-07-16T16:30:35.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":98,"latest_published_at":99},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"General","general",29,"2026-07-10T22:28:58.000Z",{"name":106,"slug":107,"count":108,"latest_published_at":109},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":111,"slug":112,"count":113,"latest_published_at":114},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]