Though solely a small share of video games on Steam seem to have been designed to unfold malware, it is sufficient that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is now trying into it. The FBI’s Seattle Division has introduced that it is trying to establish gamers who had been victimized by pretend video games on Steam that secretly contaminated their computer systems.
Based on the bulletin on the FBI’s official site (by way of Polygon), the next video games have been recognized for spreading malware on Steam: BlockBlasters, Chemia, Dashverse / DashFPS, Lampy, Lunara, PirateFi, and Tokenova. The FBI describes the goal of its investigation as a “risk actor,” which can indicate that these contaminated video games got here from the identical suspect or suspects.
Gamers who downloaded any of those video games between Could 2024 and January 2026 have been requested to fill out a form on the FBI’s site. The message additionally guarantees that data supplied by potential victims will probably be saved confidential.
PirateFi and BlockBlasters had below 10 concurrent customers earlier than they had been pulled down from Steam in 2025. Nevertheless, a streamer often called RastalandTV–who is at the moment battling stage 4 cancer–shared a narrative about BlockBlasters stealing $32,000 from him after he was coaxed into downloading it.
Valve is not a goal of this investigation, but it surely has been hit by a lawsuit in the UK that accuses Steam of being a monopoly. In 2021, an analogous case was introduced towards Valve within the US earlier than it was finally dismissed later that 12 months.