Wasn't it from a superhero suit dispenser? I remember something like that in a big crossover. Spidey's suit got damaged and someone told him to get a new one there, and that ended up being the symbiont.
Also, there's way more symbionts out there.
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Yup, at the end of Secret Wars. Upon further research it seems there are too many symbiotes.