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There's different types of malicious nodes - Some for tracking, some for redirecting people to fake HTTPS sites (there was a case where an exit node was scamming Monero users by sending them to a fake exchange page, etc. Avoid this by using onion URLs where possible). There are undoubtedly some malicious tracking nodes, but as long as some of the network is legitimate, Tor can be secure.
Hard to say, but to be honest it's not hard to spin up new nodes on a docker image through DigitalOcean so a temporary attack on Tor that controls a large part of the network would be pretty cheap. That said, there haven't been any big court cases where someone was deanoned through Tor malicious nodes, so if it's good enough for criminals, it's good enough for regular people too
What are your stats?
That's generally not helpful, real traffic is better than fake traffic