{"id":233280,"date":"2026-03-14T05:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/fbi-seeks-victims-of-steam-games-used-to-spread-malware"},"modified":"2026-03-14T05:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:15:18","slug":"fbi-seeks-victims-of-steam-games-used-to-spread-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/fbi-seeks-victims-of-steam-games-used-to-spread-malware","title":{"rendered":"FBI seeks victims of Steam games used to spread malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fbi-seeks-victims-of-steam-games-used-to-spread-malware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FBI is asking gamers who installed Steam titles containing malware to provide information as part of an ongoing investigation into eight malicious games uploaded to the gaming platform.<\/p>\n<p>In a notice published today by the FBI\u2019s Seattle Division, the agency said it is attempting to identify individuals who were affected after installing one of the malicious games on Steam between May 2024 and January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI\u2019s Seattle Division is seeking to identify potential victims installing Steam games embedded with malware. The FBI believes the threat actor primarily targeted users between the timeframe of May 2024 and January 2026,\u201d reads the notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is asking gamers who installed Steam titles containing malware to provide information as part of an ongoing investigation into eight malicious games uploaded to the gaming platform. In a notice published today by the FBI\u2019s Seattle Division, the agency said it is attempting to identify individuals who were affected after installing one of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}