An ontology for threats, cybercrime and digital forensic investigation on Smart City Infrastructure, (Wed, Feb 12th)

This article presents SCOPE, a technology-agnostic ontology for modeling smart city cyber threats, cybercrime, and digital forensic investigations, built as an extension of UCO and CASE and aligned with ISO standards. It integrates MITRE ATT&CK and CAPEC to provide contextual linkage to evidence and was evaluated against public APT-attributed scenarios to demonstrate coverage of incident details and attack patterns. The authors aim to equip future defenders and investigators of Smart City Infrastructure, and provide public access via the SCOPE GitHub and official website, with full details published in Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation.