# Understanding prompt injections: a frontier security challenge

DevFeed: [Understanding prompt injections: a frontier security challenge](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/understanding-prompt-injections-a-frontier-security-challenge-6619.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://openai.com/index/prompt-injections>)

Published: 2025-11-07T11:30:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [OpenAI News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/openai-news.md>)

Topics: [prompt injection](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prompt-injection.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Conversational AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/conversational-ai.md>), [Social engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/social-engineering.md>), [Machine Learning, Security Attacks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning-security-attacks.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>)

Tags: [attacks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/attacks.md>), [conversational-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conversational-ai.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [prompt-injection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prompt-injection.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains prompt injection as a security and social engineering attack against conversational AI. Malicious instructions hidden in webpages, documents, emails, or other third-party content can mislead AI systems into taking unintended actions, especially when they can access sensitive data or act on a user's behalf. It describes OpenAI's focus on recognizing and resisting these attacks through defenses, research, training, and a multi-layered safety approach.

## Source excerpt

Prompt injections are a frontier security challenge for AI systems. Learn how these attacks work and how OpenAI is advancing research, training models, and building safeguards for users.