IN a post dated 20 October 2026, DataBreaches[.]net recounts a developing cybercrime narrative centered on a 19-year-old figure known as Pryx, who Reuters had introduced as a former cybercriminal claiming to have abandoned hacking and started a cybersecurity company.
The piece details a dramatic incident from Cairo: on 7 July 2025 a fire at the Ramses Central Exchange, a key telecommunications facility, killed four workers and left 27 injured, with widespread disruption to telecommunications, internet services, banking operations and aviation. Initial investigations pointed to an electrical fault, but subsequent reporting raised the possibility of cyber involvement in the incident.
The article cites a December 2025 LeMagIT report co-credited to Pryx and another actor, Devman, alleging intrusion into Egyptian infrastructure that compromised Hyper-V infrastructure, domain controllers and systems linked to industrial SCADA environments. Pryx is said to have described the network going unresponsive as attackers manipulated the SCADA environment, and suggested the fire might not have been a mere coincidence. The journalist notes there were screenshots supporting elements of these intrusion claims.
The piece emphasises that DataBreaches[.]net does not hold Pryx’s current contact information, and invites responses via Signal. It presents the narrative as a commentary and analysis of alleged cybercrime activity intersecting with critical infrastructure and a fatal incident, while distinguishing between the claimed exploitation and the purported impact based on the available sources.