Gawdamn, whatever happened to a respectable old Mediatek vulnerability being exploited by a suspicious app on ya computer that called itself something funny lik

Gawdamn, whatever happened to a respectable old Mediatek vulnerability being exploited by a suspicious app on ya computer that called itself something funny like Kingoroot? (Sidenote but I'm still impressed that thing would work without giving my computer half a dozen viruses)