#42 - Dep Upgrade Analysis, Eclipse IDE, AI Pentest Preview & Real Time Kubernetes Image Scanning

9 Feb 2026

Features

• Dependency Upgrade Breaking Change Analysis: Aikido AutoFix analyzes dependency upgrades to surface code-breaking impacts early, reducing the risk of upgrades and preventing regressions.

• Kubernetes In-Cluster Image Scanning: Continuously scans container images running in your Kubernetes clusters to detect vulnerabilities on all running containers.

• AI Pentest - Skip Payment: Run a full whitebox pentest to find your true exposure without paying upfront. Only pay to unlock the details of High or Critical findings.

• Eclipse IDE plugin released: Scan your projects in real time to detect secrets, API keys, and security vulnerabilities as you code.

• New and improved Reachability view: Refreshed design with deeper and more granular insights, accessible directly from the Feed by hovering over a finding.

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Aikido Intel - Malware & Vulnerability Database

Our research team has discovered over #139 new vulnerabilities over the last month, with deep dives into npx confusion via unclaimed packages and malware distributed through a fake ClawdBot VS Code extension.

Improvements

• Code Scanning - Support Visual Basic.NET

• Code Scanning - Clojure support

• Cloud - Azure China is now supported

• Zen Firewall - Agent releases for Dotnet, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Golang and Node

• Code Quality - Ability to edit Custom Rules

• AI Pentest - Get an estimate for the amount of agents needed for optimal coverage

• AI Pentest - Programmatically create new Pentests via API

• AI Pentest - Schedule for weekend execution

• AI Pentest - AI Pentest now suggests hardening improvements to code

• IDE IntelliJ - Added Full Codebase Scan

• IDE - Track Expansion Pack (Secrets, Safe-Chain, MCP) usage across your organization

• IDE - New releases for VSCode, Jetbrains and Visual Studio

• Safe-Chain - New Releases adding custom registry support for Python and Jenkins support

• Integrations - Compliance integration with CompAI

• Reports - UK Cyber Essentials

• API - Start container scan

• API - Set network connectivity for repository

• API - List tasks related to a group

• API - Get AI Pentest assessment details