KUALA LUMPUR, April 16 — Malaysia’s Internet regulator has urged the public to be more vigilant when surfing the web, following a recent report claiming that government-backed hackers from China have been spying on local online users for at least a decade.

The Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said, however, that it has yet to obtain the full details of the claim made in the report released on Monday by US cyber security company FireEye Inc.

“MCMC is getting in touch with FireEye 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 to Malay Mail Online.

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

According to FireEye’s findings, China’s hackers have been running a cyber espionage operation targeting Malaysia and other Southeast Asian nations for over 10 years.

It said the hackers dubbed APT30 targets 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 in the South China Sea between China, Malaysia and other countries.

“This evidence leads us to believe that APT30 serves a government’s needs for intelligence about key government and industry entities in Southeast Asia and India,” said FireEye in its report called “APT30 and the Mechanics of a Long-Running Cyber Espionage Operation”.

Malaysia is among the countries that are confirmed targets of the hackers, who have been running the cyber attacks on various sources, possibly including classified government networks, since at least 2005, said the report.

Other nations said to be confirmed APT30 targets are Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, India, the United States and Saudi Arabia.

The report also said malware was detected in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea and India from October 2012 to October 2014.

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 an insight into the region’s politics and economics.

The Diplomat, a current affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific region, said last month that Malaysia has been using a “playing it safe” approach to the South China Sea issue amid China’s increasing assertiveness in the past few years.