FBI seeks victims of infected Steam games for its own investigations
The FBI is calling for help from users of eight infected games offered on Steam. Players are asked to support the investigation through a form.
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched investigations against individuals who offered malware-infected games on Steam. Sensitive data may have been stolen from users' systems. The FBI is therefore now looking for victims who have downloaded and played one or more such games from Valve's gaming platform in order to gather information. Users are urged to fill out a corresponding form to support the investigation.
So far, the investigators have identified these Steam games contaminated with malware: "BlockBlasters", "Chemia", "Dashverse/DashFPS", "Lampy", "Lunara", "PirateFi" and "Tokenova". With these games, the attackers allegedly attacked users between May 2024 and January 2026, but Lampy and Lunara are still available on Steam. Other apparently infected games like PirateFi have already been removed by Valve. This was in February 2025.
Steam investigations via FBI form
Now the US federal police is looking for background information for its own investigations and provides an extensive form for this purpose. Users of the mentioned games are asked to fill it out. Providing the information is voluntary, and the FBI promises to treat identities confidentially. However, victims may "under certain circumstances be entitled to certain benefits and compensation."
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However, some private data is requested. In addition to mandatory information such as name and address, the email address linked to the Steam account is also required. Other information is voluntary, but the FBI would also like to know the victim's wallet address in case of potential loss of cryptocurrency. If the bank account has been emptied due to the malware-infected games, the US federal police also requests bank information.
More important for the investigation of suspects, however, is whether these games were recommended to users online, for example via messenger or social networks. Here, the FBI explicitly asks for usernames of potential attackers and screenshots as well as communication logs, should they be available. While uploading this data via the form is not possible, the US federal police reserves the right to make further inquiries. Anyone who has corresponding documents may therefore be contacted by the FBI after filling out the form.
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