Aleksandr Andreevich Panin and Hamza Bendelladj have been sentenced for their roles in developing and distributing SpyEye banking trojan, a powerful botnet similar to the infamous ZeuS malware. Panin, a 27-year-old Russian programmer also known by the hacker alias ‘Gribodemon’ and ‘Harderman,’ was sentenced by the court to nine years, six months in prison for developing SpyEye as a successor to the notorious Zeus banking malware.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/04/spyeye-banking-trojan.html