FBI used Google cookies, 500 food orders and a Monero seed phrase to identify Steam malware funder

A 15-page federal criminal complaint details how investigators combined a Bitcoin trail with Google cookies, phone records, and more than 500 Uber Eats deliveries to identify Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins as the alleged financier and marketer of a Steam malware campaign. A later search uncovered a Monero seed phrase tied to roughly $382,000 in cumulative transaction activity.Federal agents arrested Wilkins, 21, in Florida on July 14. The complaint, entered the following day, charges him with one count of conspiracy to obtain information by computer for private financial gain.The allegations concern the same eight-game campaign CryptoSlate reported on July 19. The FBI and the complaint allege that the campaign infected approximately 8,000 devices, accessed about 80 cryptocurrency wallets and stole at least $220,000.The complaint also lays out how investigators connected campaign funding to Wilkins and what they found after obtaining a residential search warrant.Messages describe Wilkins’ alleged financing roleProsecutors allege that another participant created the developer accounts and launched the games, while Wilkins supplied funding and helped market them.The games were pr...