Case Study: Regional UK Bank achieves zero cloned websites in two months with Mimecast Brand Exploit Protect

UK bank chooses Mimecast to thwart customer phishing attacks

A well‑respected regional UK bank with about £1bn in assets, specialising in property and asset finance and SME savings, faced repeated website cloning and phishing campaigns that eroded customer trust. The bank was spending around two man‑days a week on manual searches and slow ISP/legal takedowns, leaving threats live and customers exposed.

The bank implemented Mimecast Brand Exploit Protect for automated, continuous monitoring and managed takedowns; detected sites were flagged to Google and Microsoft within minutes and fully DNS‑taken down within hours. Within two months all customer‑impacting cloned sites had been eradicated, internal staff time was freed up, and the bank’s reputation and customer trust were restored.