Seems unlikely that the antimalware scene is driving the Tor detection research. China seems to be putting the lots of effort behind it for censorship purposes.
I was partly responding to my own irritation with the underlying premise of the article. If Tor is being used maliciously to deliver or receive an encrypted payload on your computer or network, it isn't a problem caused by Tor. Furthermore, Tor has an enormous social benefit.
In other words, my first reaction was that it is harmful to attack the technology, but realized that is a silly argument for obscurity. Publishing a vulnerability, and more people publicly searching for vulnerabilities is a good thing, since authoritarian actors will just exploit what they find without any disclosure.
See: How Governments have tried to Block Tor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMr8Xl7JMQ