OpenAI Signals Industry Alert: Prompt Injection Emerges as Critical AI Vulnerability

OpenAI's $7,500 bug bounty on prompt injection represents an industry-wide acknowledgment that AI safety tooling remains inadequate. With 38% of public MCP servers lacking authentication and most production AI apps unprotected, this signals that the window for security-later approaches has closed. Developers now have both the tools and the urgency to implement defenses before large-scale AI exploits become standard attack vectors.