# 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.

- Published: 2026-07-25T05:44:17.130Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-07-25/fbi-used-a-bitcoin-trail-google-cookies-and-500-food-orders
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
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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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