KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 — The Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) today urged the public to be vigilant when surfing the web in the face of claims that government-backed hackers from China were spying on Malaysia.

MCMC added that it was working on obtaining details of the report published by FireEye Inc which states that the hackers, dubbed APT30 target governments, companies and journalists across Southeast Asia, India and more to gain intelligence on regional political, economic and military issues, such as the conflicting territorial claims over parts of the South China Sea between China, Malaysia and other countries.

“MCMC is getting in touch with Fire Eye about the details of the report and we would like to remind everyone to be vigilant and continue to observe good cyber hygiene practices,” MCMC said in a statement today.

MCMC declined to comment further when asked if an investigation is being conducted or if any sort of intervention was in the pipeline.

CyberSecurity Malaysia, a national cyber security specialist agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, also declined to comment.

The report that was released yesterday lists Malaysia as one of the confirmed targets of the hackers who have been running the cyber-attacks on various sources, possibly including classified government networks, since at least 2005.

FireEye further said the hackers have been targeting nations in Asean, of which Malaysia is chair, around the time of official Asean meetings to glean insight on the region’s politics and economics.