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
Step-by-step FiveM resource review: unpack the archive, read fxmanifest.lua, trace load() and PerformHttpRequest, and know when a backdoor scanner saves you time.
Remote loaders, URLs hidden in config, sneaky ACE grants, event backdoors: the ten backdoor patterns we see most often in FiveM resources and how to detect each one.
What to do in the first hour after a FiveM compromise: contain, preserve evidence, rotate credentials, find the entry point and rebuild safely.
FiveM asset escrow and Lua obfuscation hide code from you, not from attackers. What that means for backdoor risk and how to decide whether to trust an escrowed resource.
The real trade-offs between reading code and running it, why we chose static analysis for FXScan, and where each approach genuinely fails.
Review a FiveM resource's fxmanifest.lua before installing it: which scripts run server-side, risky globs, provide, remote ui_page and other red flags — with examples.
A server owner's security view of CFX.re join codes: which endpoint and resource data is public by design, what others can do with it, and how to reduce exposure.
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.
Found a backdoor or exploit in a FiveM resource? Where to report it, what to include, how coordinated disclosure works, and what happens after you send it to Titan.
Report threats, contribute detections, participate in research or build open-source tooling with the Titan community.