I'm not sure where the cutting edge work is being done in this case, but generally speaking we 'hear' from Kaspersky/Symantec in these sorts of press stories pr

I'm not sure where the cutting edge work is being done in this case, but generally speaking we 'hear' from Kaspersky/Symantec in these sorts of press stories primarily because they have notable press/marketing operations with tight relationships to mainstream news organizations. Even if they were doing little more than independently confirming the cutting edge work of other firms, their voice is massively 'louder' and today's mass media landscape is tilted away from the independent investigation that we could rely upon to properly attribute the work being done in such technical situations.