U.S. prosecutors have charged a Florida man with distributing malware-laden video games on Steam as part of a scheme that allegedly infected thousands of victims and drained their crypto wallets.

According to a criminal complaint, the FBI arrested 21-year-old Zyaire Wilkins on Tuesday, accusing him and several unnamed co-conspirators of publishing malicious games, including BlockBlasters, Dashverse, Lampy, Lunara, and PirateFi, on Steam over the past two years.

The games were designed to look and function like legitimate titles, but once installed, the embedded malware harvested passwords and personal data and targeted victims' crypto wallets.

Prosecutors allege the scheme infected roughly 8,000 victims and compromised around 80 crypto wallets, resulting in at least $220,000 in stolen crypto.

The games were reportedly marketed through Discord, LinkedIn, and Telegram. The FBI first flagged the investigation publicly in March, calling on victims who had downloaded the affected games to come forward with evidence.