Investigators from the Israeli police secretly used sophisticated spyware to snoop on citizens’ phones, the Israeli police admitted for the first time on Tuesday. An internal probe uncovered evidence of unauthorised use of the Pegasus spyware, sold by the controversial NSO group, to target the phones of Israeli citizens. The probe was launched in January after the Israeli news site Calcalist reported a string of instances of police using Pegasus to surveil protesters, politicians and criminal suspects without authorisation from a judge. Initially, the police denied the website’s findings and s…