the malware that drained $220K in crypto wasn't a sketchy download — it was published on Steam

eight real games, real Steam store pages, real players — and crypto-draining malware baked right in. the FBI only caught the guy thanks to a trail… Aliteq Sam Okafor · Web3 & Chains Editor

Investigators traced the stolen Bitcoin to more than 150 gift cards — most of them spent on Uber Eats. An oddly mundane trail connected anonymous crypto theft to a real identity: laundering stolen…

How they actually got caught

This scheme specifically defeats the standard advice, because the games were legitimately published on Steam's official storefront — not sideloaded, not pirated. The conspirators promoted them…

Why "only download from Steam" wasn't enough here

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