13 Japanese Credit Card Firms Expand Anti-Phishing Effort to Non-Financial Targets

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Thirteen domestic credit card companies will coordinate anti-phishing actions from April 2026 after five new firms join the initiative.
The joint effort that began in April 2025 closed about 50,000 phishing-site URLs by the end of 2025.
About 75% of 2025 credit card fraud losses (51.05 billion yen) are estimated to stem from phishing, and annual phishing reports reach about 2.45 million cases.
