{"id":36232,"date":"2026-03-14T18:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=36232"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:56:40","slug":"fbi-launches-investigation-into-games-removed-from-steam-over-malware-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=36232","title":{"rendered":"FBI Launches Investigation Into Games Removed From Steam Over Malware Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1837\/18375603\/4666087-steamlogo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although only a small percentage of games on Steam appear to have been designed to spread malware, it&#8217;s enough that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is now looking into it. The FBI&#8217;s Seattle Division has announced that it&#8217;s attempting to identify players who were victimized by fake games on Steam that secretly infected their computers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the bulletin on the FBI&#8217;s official site (via Polygon), the following games have been identified for spreading malware on Steam: BlockBlasters, Chemia, Dashverse \/ DashFPS, Lampy, Lunara, PirateFi, and Tokenova. The FBI describes the target of its investigation as a &#8220;threat actor,&#8221; which may imply that these infected games came from the same suspect or suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Players who downloaded any of these games between May 2024 and January 2026 have been asked to fill out a form on the FBI&#8217;s site. The message also promises that information provided by potential victims will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/fbi-launches-investigation-into-games-removed-from-steam-over-malware-concerns\/1100-6538786\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although only a small percentage of games on Steam appear to have been designed to spread malware, it&#8217;s enough that the Federal Bureau of Investigation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2110,18070,321,7446,4131,9205,9405,3418],"class_list":["post-36232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-concerns","tag-fbi","tag-games","tag-investigation","tag-launches","tag-malware","tag-removed","tag-steam","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}