Most FiveM servers are compromised through code their owner installed on purpose. These articles cover the security decisions an operator actually controls — what you install, how you review it, and what you do when review fails.
10 articles
A practical review process for FiveM resources: what to unpack, which files to read first, the patterns that matter, and where automated scanning helps.
The recurring shapes of FiveM backdoors — remote loaders, config-hidden URLs, ace grants, event backdoors — and the detection logic for each.
What to do in the first hour after a FiveM compromise: contain, preserve evidence, rotate credentials, find the entry point and rebuild safely.
Why encrypted and obfuscated FiveM resources shift risk rather than reduce it, and how to decide when unreadable code is an acceptable trade.
The real trade-offs between reading code and running it, why we chose static analysis for FXScan, and where each approach genuinely fails.
A field guide to the FiveM resource manifest: what each directive grants, which entries change the blast radius, and the red flags worth stopping on.
How FiveM join codes resolve, what endpoint and resource data is public, and how operators can use that visibility on their own infrastructure.
Host, database, credentials, ACE permissions, resource intake and backups — the security setup to do before a FiveM server ever opens to players.
How code reaches FiveM servers — marketplaces, Discords, leak sites, forks — and which links in that chain have no verification at all.
Where to send a security finding, what a useful report contains, how coordinated disclosure works, and what happens after you send one to Titan.
Report threats, contribute detections, participate in research or build open-source tooling with the Titan community.