Proof of storage crypto miners

This report examines proof-of-storage cryptojacking—especially Chia mining—highlighting why attackers may target cloud storage over compute, the economic incentives, and the potential for massive unintended cloud costs. It contrasts storage service quotas and logging blind spots with compute-focused cryptomining, and provides practical detection tips such as monitoring port 8447/TCP, looking for “Proof of Space Plot” files, and tracking lookups to chia.net subdomains, along with cost monitoring and miner binary detection.