https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/12/22/on-junip...

But also, Dual EC was suspected of being backdoored from day one, was slower than existing CSPRNGs, and was therefore avoided like the plague. Whereas the premise is that if you put all the world's secrets behind one set of keys, there doesn't exist a level of defense that can withstand the level of attacks that will attract. Which doesn't apply when it isn't widely used.

On top of that, the attackers would be the likes of foreign intelligence agencies, and then them not getting it and the public not hearing about them getting it are two different things.