Morning Edition · Saturday, July 25, 2026Published at 1:44 AM EDT · New York
FBI Used a Bitcoin Trail, Google Cookies, and 500 Food Orders to Unmask a Malware Financier
A federal complaint shows how on-chain forensics combined with ordinary web and delivery records to identify the alleged funder of a Steam malware campaign, despite the use of a Monero seed phrase.
A 15-page federal criminal complaint details how investigators identified Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins as the alleged financier and marketer of a malware campaign distributed through the Steam gaming platform. The method is the notab…
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